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ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... The Australian share market has opened slightly higher on positive leads from Wall Street but it's under pressure as two major banks go ex-dividend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 again closed at record highs overnight, for the second consecutive ...

Paul Barrett resurfaces in partnership with Italian manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
Former ANZ managing director of advice and distribution Paul Barrett has established a financial planning business partly-owned by Italian independent asset manager Azimut. Barrett is now the chief executive officer of Next Generation Advisory (NGA) ...

FEATURE: Risk at risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... Sydney recently, AustralianSuper's insurance product manager Richard Weatherhead01 made an alarming claim: thanks to the major repricing currently underway in the group insurance market, the group model itself is under threat. Weatherhead articulated ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association's performance of construction index (PCI) for October is also due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed lower on signs a recovery in employment levels ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... uncharted territory, the harder it would get to secure such a consensus. So I'm wondering whether you personally see any major obstacles to taking decisions, for example on government bond buys, with a simple majority. Draghi : I'll answer both questions ...

BNP Paribas top custodian for client satisfaction

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... satisfaction, beating the likes of Citi, J.P. Morgan and NAB Asset Servicing (NAS), in the Global Custodian Agent Banks in Major Markets Survey 2014. The survey asked the customers of custodians around 50 questions, in six categories: settlement, asset ...

Lonsec acquires van Eyk's iRate business

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... that the business will continue plans to release iRate Version 5 in the first quarter of 2015. Erdonmez described it as "a major upgrade which will provide material technological advances in portfolio construction for all users."

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... to $81.475 after Wednesday's solid rally on the back of the bank's surprisingly strong quarterly profit result. The other major bank stocks were up. Westpac gained seven cents to $34.66, ANZ was up five cents to $33.84 and National Australia Bank rose ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... But equity markets brushed off news of sliding retail sales across the eurozone to join a rally by the greenback against major rival currencies after Republicans took control of the US Senate from Democrats overnight, which many investors hope might ...

PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... research only to the Lonsec dealer group. For the last 14 years, Gillespie has seen Lonsec grow and become one of Australia's major research houses. Laura Millan reports. "It was a very different business then," Gillespie remembers. "There was a much ...