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More to Asia than just Chindia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Investors focusing their Asia interest on just China and India are missing a strategic opportunity to get involved with South East Asia (SEA), a region that is just as big and growing at a similar rate. SEA comprises 14 countries located between Australia ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... property prices generated anxiety about the strength of the world's second-biggest economy. In Tuesday morning's local corporate earnings results, insurer QBE shares were up 37 cents, or 3.18 per cent, at $12.02 after it posted a $US254 million ($A282.00 ...

Treasury looks at further FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
Treasury is considering confidential proposals to reverse rules that ban conflicted remuneration arrangements for corporate super specialist advisers, according to Douglas Latto, president of the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA). Traditionally ...

Zenith recommends AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... AllianceBernstein's Australian executive director Ross Kent said. The fund invests predominantly in sub-investment grade (high-yield) corporate debt as well as emerging market sovereign and corporate debt. Zenith noted in its rating report that the fund ...

Morningstar CEO departs, replacement named

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... 2014. Brilliant will take over as sole chief executive in 2015. Brilliant is currently global director of equity and corporate credit research, while Roomans is chief operating officer of Morningstar Europe. Morningstar's chairman and chief executive ...

Crowdfunding investment platform launched

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... BlueChilli in Sydney, AngelCube in Melbourne, Slingshot in Newcastle, UOW iAccelerate in Wollongong and iLab in Brisbane. "Corporate incubator programs including Telstra's muru-D and OptusSingtel innov8, and new venture capital firms such as Blackbird ...

Life insurance losses drag AMP results

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... reported less profit or straight losses. AMP Flexible Super went from $2,338 million in FY12 to 1,958 million in FY13 and corporate super net cashflows fall from $545 million in FY12 to $205 million in FY13. AMP reported its full year results amid a ...

BT reveals post-awards strategy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... business bank should the government proceed with its plan to take superannuation out of modern awards. Vicki Doyle, head of corporate and retail super at BT, told Financial Standard taking super out of awards would open up 30,000 small to medium sized ...

Credit Suisse and First NZ launch small cap business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... will lead the investment banking team from Sydney while Credit Suisse's Peter Paltoglou, former head of Credit Suisse's corporate advisory business, will lead the Melbourne-based investment banking team. St John commented: "CSEC will address the significant ...

MetLife's Green returns to Australia to take up interim CEO role

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... markets and health Nirmala Menon until a successor is found. Green has previously served as AIA's chief executive of group corporate solutions in Hong Kong as well as chief executive for AIA in Australia, before joining MetLife in his current role. He ...