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Rainmaker expands its investment capability with key appointment

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... joining AXA (now part of the AMP group), Dyall was a consultant at Towers Perrin and, before that, deputy finance editor at a major mass circulation newspaper. Rainmaker is a leading data, research, publishing and events group with a portfolio of brands ...

Allow couples to hold joint super accounts: Rice Warner

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
Married couples should be allowed to have a joint account for their superannuation, Rice Warner proposed in its pre-budget submission to Treasury. "We set out the logic of this arrangement in a newsletter last year and had positive feedback from the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... Woodside Petroleum up 33 cents at $35.82, Oil Search rising one cent to $8.29 and Santos up two cents to $8.12. Among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank was 60 cents weaker at $92.38, ANZ was down 21.5 cents at $34.685, National Australia Bank had dropped ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... had downgraded gross domestic product forecasts in the short term but 2016 still looked a bit more optimistic. Among the major banks at 1200 AEDT, Commonwealth Bank was 28 cents lower at $92.99, ANZ had eased 11 cents to $34.87, and National Bank had ...

Buffett moves in on Australian insurers

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... insurance, and BHSI expects to receive its operating licence in the coming months. Unconfirmed sources have reported other major Australian insurers are losing senior management to BHSI.

Marquee hire for PWC's investment advisory team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
PwC has announced a marquee appointment to the investment advisory team within its consulting division. They have appointed David St. John, super fund investment counsel to legal super and a former chief investment officer to UniSuper. He will join ...

ASIC to face legal action over Storm Financial

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... action for its alleged delay in taking action against Storm Financial and for allegedly acting to protect the interests of major banks, particularly the Commonwealth Bank, rather than customers. The claim is brought by Levitt Robinson Solicitors on behalf ...

Succession planning major issue for advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... principals is now 59 (and rising), and that over half of these practices are run by "indispensable" sole proprietors. "These are major issues," said Business Health owner Rod Bertino. "Only 9% of these practices have what we would class as a truly effective ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
You oughta be congratulated! Clap, clap, claps are in order for the six sages (out of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg) who correctly anticipated the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) verdict to cut interest rates by 25 bps to a historic low 2.25% ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... seven per cent to the highest level of 2015, adding some relief to markets that fear the steep drop in the commodity signals major global economic problems. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets rallied, recording a second day of gains on hopes of a deal ...