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Leadership changes at UBS NZ

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... equities and managing principal for the New Zealand Stock Exchange, with Marcus Curley as head of New Zealand equity research.

Insurers require urgent start-up collaborations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... it resulted in MetLife deploying 10 new technologies across the business very effectively, he said. Munich Re head of research and development in the life insurance sector, Vanessa Dobson said: "Insurers seem to be angling toward a greater degree of ...

Asset managers need more tech leaders in C-suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... leverage their skills to use technology strategically, rather than see it as a cost centre or an operational function. Research from financial technology company Calastone found 40.4% of the top 100 ASX-listed companies have technologists in executive ...

Low-flation becoming less transitory?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
In its 26 July FOMC statement, the Fed noted: "Inflation on a 12-month basis is expected to remain somewhat below 2% in the near term but to stabilise around the Committee's 2% objective over the medium term. Near-term risks to the economic outlook ...

AMP Capital seeks growth in Real Estate

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... lifecycle covering all major asset classes throughout Australia, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa. Head of research, real estate, Luke Dixon - Dixon joined AMP Capital to lead a centralised real estate research capability, including investment ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
I'll see your "fire and fury" and raise you Guam. Yes Virginia, that's Trump and Kim going ballistic once again as they play high stakes ICBM poker. Who will be the first to blink and fold? From what we already know of each players' character and temperament ...

Fatigue and profit-based incentives driving risk culture

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... profit-based incentives currently being debated within the financial services industry." "In FINSIA's view this type of research points to the need for professionalism in financial services. Incentives need to be balanced and individuals also need demonstrated ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Not happy Jan! This is the collective cry of Australian consumers according to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey. Yet only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best ...

Less room for mid-tier asset managers: Stern

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... scale. And with MiFID II, we're now going to have to make sure that if we're using clients' money to pay for investment research, the benefit accrues to that client. We have to be transparent about how much we paid for it, and if one client is paying ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
If anything, the National Australia Bank's July business survey added credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's optimistic take on the outlook for economic activity in the country, but not inflation which it expects "to pick up gradually as the economy ...