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Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... by 25%. To achieve that, it will sell its operations in Turkey and Brazil, although it will maintain a presence in the latter to serve large corporate clients with respect to their international rates. Instead, HSBC wants to "capture growth opportunities" ...

Experts urge govt to do more to boost infra investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... strong preference for brownfield investment and little appetite for greenfield investment in infrastructure, despite the latter's economic importance. Investors have not been willing to shoulder the additional development, operational, patronage and ...

ClearView calls for life insurance industry crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... and the replacement of "commissions" with a term like "adviser service fees", with an emphasis on fee transparency. The latter point is important, the statement continued, because the concept of "commissions" is stigmatic and prevents advisers from effectively ...

Vale Mavis Robertson AM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... Superannuation Trustees; Women in Super; the Australia Council of Super Investors (ACSI); and the Mother's Day Classic - the latter having raised more than $24 million for Breast Cancer research." Robertson also pushed for Australian superannuation funds ...

Long-serving BT exec announces retirement

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... long-serving general manager of adviser distribution Chris Freeman is retiring. He will begin stepping down from his duties in the latter half of 2015, but will stay on part-time as a consultant for a further two years. As he transitions to retirement ...

MSCI makes key hire to lead local ETF charge

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... (BGI), including head of BGI's retail, multi manager and intermediary business, and co-head of iShares Australia. In this latter role he was responsible for bringing the iShares brand to Australia and launching the first international ETFs on the ASX. ...

ISA targets 'sales incentives' in new ad campaign

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... advertising campaign is likely to raise as many hackles as the notorious 'Compare the Pair' campaign. ISA said the latter will be off the air while the new campaign is being launched, but expects it to be back on air in the future. The ad features ...

IFM warns against foreign ownership of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... scheme; premiums for members who agree not to switch funds; and incentives for members who do not switch funds. On this latter point it recommended, first, that "superannuation funds offer their members a premium to their normal returns if they agree ...

Maurice Blackburn mulls class action against Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... potential for a class action, individual action or entering into the compensation scheme," Berrill said, and added that the latter is not ideal, but is "better than nothing." He expressed concern that the compensation scheme made public last Friday reproduced ...

RBS enters enforceable undertaking

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... third institution to enter an enforceable undertaking in relation to the BBSW, following BNP Paribas and UBS AG. Both the latter donated $1 million apiece to financial literacy programs. ASIC said the enforceable undertaking "requires RBS to ensure its ...