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Capital not enough to prevent failures

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
A lone reliance on capital is an "unwise strategy", according to APRA chair Wayne Byres who said the industry must accept and prepare for failures in the banking industry. Speaking at the Actuaries Institute Banking Conference Byres noted that while ...

NAB dispels housing bubble "toil and trouble"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
A NAB executive played down fears of a housing crisis in Australia at an Actuaries Institute seminar. Speaking at the seminar in Sydney, NAB's global head of research for the global markets division Peter Jolly said that while Australian real estate ...

NAS recognised as top custodian

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
For the third consecutive year NAB Asset Servicing has been recognised as the top sub-custodian in Australia and New Zealand at the Transaction Processing Awards. NAB Asset Servicing executive general manager John Comito said the award was an endorsement ...

Shaw and Partners restructures management

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... oversee Shaw and Partners' operational activities, while Evans will manage "revenue-generating ones" - namely the institutional, corporate finance, private wealth and fixed income divisions of the company. Shaw and Partners chair Paul Masi said: "The ...

Industry fund expands investment team by 74pct

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
An industry super fund says it will expand its in-house investment team from 34 to 59 this financial year and implement a newly-defined strategy aiming to capture several scale advantages. Growing its investment team by 74%, Cbus says it is preparing ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... dramatic impact of frequently occurring 'crises' that tend to be spruiked by the financial and mainstream media. CFM's Institutional Systematic Diversified Trust, which is marketed and distributed in Australia by Winston Capital Partners, is based on ...

Storm Financial investor slams court decision

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
The joint chair of the Storm Investors Consumer Action Group has criticised the Federal Court's recent ruling against Storm Financial. Seven years after going into administration, Storm Financial has been found by the court to have provided inappropriate ...

Link seeks admin margin improvement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
Link Group says it is on track to migrate AustralianSuper's administration services from Superpartners by year's end, completing the last significant client migration in a two-year integration program. During the past financial year Link Group successfully ...

EGFM launches new property fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
... Infrastructure Fund No. 2 (YPI 2) raised just under $400 million in equity at first close with both domestic and offshore institutional investors. The fund manager plans to target commercial, industrial and retail assets in Australian capital cities ...

Shaw and Partners hires insto sales trader

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
Shaw and Partners has appointed a sales trader in its institutional equities team. Sam Kanaan joins Shaw and Partners from Merrill Lynch, where he specialised in equities trading for institutional clients, focusing on small cap, listed real estate and ...