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Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... increasing competition from alternative capital providers. "Insurers remain focused on the search for return, but view corporate bonds and public equities as either overvalued or fairly valued. This is driving CIOs to explore non-traditional asset classes ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... Daghlian said this had helped the Australian share market recover from Wednesday's losses, however local job numbers, corporate earning reports and Chinese trade figures due on Thursday could reverse this. "Today is the busiest day of the week with local ...

Blue Sky launches first listed investment company

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... option (exercisable at $1 for up to 18 months) for every share acquired in the IPO. Ord Minnett Limited and Morgans Corporate Limited are joint lead managers of the offer, and Shaw Corporate Finance Limited has been appointed co-lead manager. A prospectus ...

AMP gives SMSFs access to property and corporate bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... classes that require a large capital outlay. The AMP Capital Wholesale Australian Property Fund and the AMP Capital Corporate Bond Fund are aimed at SMSF investors who want to diversify their portfolios without investing directly in the asset classes. ...

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... issued no response. Very little information is available about what membership of the North Sydney Forum involves, 'Corporate & Business Members' and 'Private Patrons' get access to a 'private VIP boardroom function', and all become members of 'Friends ...

Super on track for double-digit year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... average annual returns were 7.0% pa. Not-for-profit super funds achieved 12 month returns of 12.9% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 11.5% for a segment gap of 1.4 percentage points. The long term segment gap is only 0.2 percentage ...

Macquarie Bank names managing director

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... treasurer in June 2011 before he was appointed CFO of the group in December 2011. Elsewhere, Ben Brazil, co-head of corporate and asset finance (CAF), will also join the executive committee from 1 July. Brazil joined in 1994 and is currently head of ...

ANZ wealth division profits up 11%

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... ago, the compound annual growth rate in earnings from Asia has been 37% and ANZ is now being consistently rated a top 4 Corporate Bank in Asia by Greenwich Associates," he added. "In Australia we are seeing ongoing benefits emerge from the investment ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's gains on mixed economic data and corporate earnings as a two-day US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting got underway. At 0805 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures ...

Compliance absorbs half of platforms' development budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... and meeting planners' needs." Platforms focused on developing usability, adviser support, reporting, direct shares and corporate actions functionality, as well as building fee disclosure statement (FDS) tools from scratch. CFS FirstWrap topped the ranking ...