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NZICA and ICAA members approve merger plans

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013

China's party plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013

DEXUS, Canada bid for Commonwealth Prop Fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
DEXUS Property Group and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) have joined forces in a bid to take over Commonwealth Property Office Fund (CPA). DEXUS announced today that the consortium had made an indicative, non-binding proposal to Commonwealth ...

Australian giving grows by $248 million

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... Aid Foundation's 2012 World Giving Index has also ranked Australia the world's most generous country ahead of Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the US. The ranking is based on Australia having the highest levels of involvement in three giving behaviours ...

EQT outsources custody business to State Street

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... custody of $8 billion of UBS Global Asset Management's more than $37 billion funds under management (FUM). Royal Bank of Canada's custody arm, RBC Investor and Treasury Services recently confirmed that it will be closing its Melbourne operations and ...

SMSFs show appetite for direct overseas shares

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... superannuation dollars in the market. Skaffold Global provides analyses of stocks on exchanges in the US, UK, Europe, Hong Kong, Canada, Switzerland and Singapore.

Macquarie sells private wealth business in Canada

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Macquarie Group has entered into an agreement for the sale of Macquarie Private Wealth Canada, its Canadian retail business. Canadian independent wealth management firm Richardson GMP bought the business, which has more than 185 adviser teams in 12 ...

RBC to close Melbourne custody office

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Redundancies are on the cards at Royal Bank of Canada's custody arm, RBC Investor and Treasury Services, after it confirmed it will be closing its Melbourne operations and moving the entire Australian business to its Sydney headquarters. The move is ...

Gunns chairman avoids jail for insider trading

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... February 2010. Following this release, the Gunns share price fell substantially. Earlier this month former Royal Bank of Canada employee John Kay Jin Khoo was jailed for 14 months and in June 2013 former PwC tax consultant Nicholas Glynatsis was sentenced ...

Standard Life sales spike after global expansion

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... global footprint," Standard Life head of Business in the Asia Pacific region Simone Bouch told Financial Standard. "The US, Canada and the Asian markets have contributed to the spike of growth," she said. Bouch explained that Standard Life's multi-asset ...