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BNP Paribas targets UHNW clients in Asia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
BNP Paribas is targeting ultra high net worth with its new plans to expand its wealth management business in Asia. Chief executive Jean-Laurent BonnafA(C), said the French bank was ready to "actively pursue business development in 2013" after adapting ...

Accountants jump on digital hub

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
The Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has launched pubacct.org.au, a new digital hub for IPA members, the accounting profession and the public. The IPA intends to use the hub to extend its voice to the accounting profession, as well as consumers ...

Macquarie launches SMSF Toolkit for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Macquarie Group has launched a Self Managed Super Funds Toolkit for advisers. The new service allows advisers to find all kinds of information and tools about SMSF in the one place, including calculators from Macquarie MAStech team, which calculate ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available now

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
In the new edition of Financial Standard we review the issues that some of Australia's chief economists expect to define 2013, and feature the latest thinking in the social media space, as well as latest news, views and regular features. Financial Standard's ...

ETF entrepreneur donates generously to uni

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
Multi-millionaire global commodities trader Graham Tuckwell and his wife Louise have donated $50 million to fund scholarships for undergraduates at the Australian National University. Under plans laid out in the largest donation ever made to Australian ...

Funds unlikely to follow HOSTPLUS to PST

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... launch the new model in the latter half of 2013 if markets continue to deliver positive investment performance. *This article was updated on 1 February to clarify that HOSTPLUS has only announced plans to allow self managed super funds to access its ...

CBUS to review products to tempt SMSFs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... funds such as HOSTPLUS could be hoping that they would roll their retirement savings across when they got older. *This article was updated on 1 February to clarify that HOSTPLUS has only announced plans to allow self managed super funds to access its ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... three does not greatly increase America's probability of default. Not that America hasn't defaulted in the past. In its article headed, "Has the United States Ever Defaulted on Its Debt?", CNBC cited four instances when Uncle Sam did - in 1790, in 1841-42 ...

Family office growth creates opportunity for wealth managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
The huge growth in family office wealth is leading to significant opportunities for investment managers, according to Boston-based global research firm Cerulli Associates. A new global report posted by the company shows that assets under management ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... because this happened or that didn't happen. But who knows? Steen could be right. But nah... even google says nah! In his article headed, 'Farfetched forecasts with a ring of realism,' published on www.thenational.ae last 20 December 2011, one of Steen's ...