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RBC Dexia appoints new Hong Kong MD

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
RBC Dexia Investor Services appoints Brent Reuter as managing director of Hong Kong and head of sales and distribution for Asia to build out RBC Dexia's brand and franchise. Reuter will be responsible for continuing the process of RBC Dexia's plans ...

ANZ to open Chengdu centre

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
ANZ Bank has established a new Chinese-language operations centre in Chengdu to support its business growth in the region. Speaking at a signing ceremony with the Chengdu Government, ANZ chief executive Mike Smith said ANZ has now reached a size in ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
There were snippets of good news overnight although on the whole, they were just that -snippets. Bad news dominated the headlines. There was more of the same confusing data out of America. Jobless claims rose by 12,000 in the week ending 18 September ...

Divorcing super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Divorce battle over self-managed super fund assets and art ownership within SMSFs raises tricky questions over what happens when only one of the splitting couple is a fund trustee. Many Australian couples are often unaware of the effect divorce can ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
"But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do." -- Peter Sarstedt We, mere mortals, watching the financial market's daily gyrations and the regular drip ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
What the? The past three straight trading days on 'The Street' provided a perfect specimen of investors' one data point to the next data point existence. Day 1. Overall US non-farm payrolls fell by less than expected in August. Private sector jobs increased ...

Receivers appointed to Willmott Forests

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
The fate of around 8,000 investors' $400 million investments in MIS scheme provider Willmott Forests remains up in the air, as the firm's financiers - CBA and St.George - yesterday appointed receivers to the company. Bryan Webster, Mark Korda and Mark ...

Legal risks pose social media stumbling blocks

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
Lack of clarity around the regulation of blogs and other social media networks is preventing many investment firms from making the big leap to Web 2.0 - but consumer usage of social media in their day-to-day life will force firms to come up with a solution. ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Glum has entered the building. Remember him? The teenie weenie Lilliputian in Gulliver's Travels who when faced with a predicament - any predicament - exclaims, "We'll never make it! We're doomed!" So it is with Wall Street and its view of the US economy ...

IOOF books $225m net inflows, simplifies ops

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
IOOF Holdings, the listed financial services group that could become the new owner of the AXA North platform subject to ongoing AXA APH merger talks, books a strong set of full-year results and flags the continuing consolidation of its various business ...