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Advisers endorse rural insurance top guns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
Rabo Financial Advisers (RFA) is set to boost its risk insurance relationships with Aviva, Asteron and CommInsure after they were identified as leaders in providing risk insurance to primary producers and regional businesses. The financial planning ...

Agriculture drives biofuel investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
As agriculture continues to outperform, the push for sustainable biofuels will only increase investor appetite for investment opportunities in the sector. According to the Commonwealth Bank, "Australia's listed agribusiness sector has significantly ...

JPMorgan buys $342.5 bn Nordic custody service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has purchased the institutional custody portfolio of Nordea, one of the largest Nordic banks with $342.5 billion in assets under custody. According to a JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services (JPMorgan), the deal ...

FSA changes practices after Northern Rock

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
The UK based Financial Services Authority (FSA) has overhauled its staffing and reviewing methods after an internal investigation found it failed to properly review Northern Rock's liquidity crisis. In February, Newcastle-based Northern Rock sought ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
ANZ may be preparing investors for a capital raising. It is also noteworthy that ANZ and its CEO Mike Smith are taking the lead - given NAB and John Stewart took the opposite position in an interview with The Australian (and abstracted here) a couple ...

Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... big five, St George, Suncorp, BankWest, ING and Adelaide Bank are all funding the sort of mortgage lending that groups like ours are doing." McKeon said the business was still ticking over. AFG wrote $2.5 billion of residential mortgages and $200 million ...

Future Fund to become top insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
The Future Fund has signed up Vanguard, State Street, CFS GAM and QIC as its debut investment managers, but there's more to come as the fund strives to become the country's "leading institutional investor". Speaking at the 2008 Asset Allocation Summit ...

SimCorp edges back to front

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... legacy systems out there will be under more pressure than they are today, so we expect people to look for modern systems like ours to replace the spaghetti systems," Hill said. "I'm not going to rush out there and claim victory and triple our workforce ...

So much to do, so little time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... Behind Act (education), and the HOPE NOW alliance for dealing with sub-prime crisis. In Australia we just unimaginatively call ours CLERP, FSR or SIS.

AMF seals deal with Client Wealth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
AllMyFunds (AMF) has sealed a strategic alliance with financial adviser group Client Wealth in a partnership that that will see both firms leverage off each other's assets. Queensland-based AMF will utilise Client Wealth's financial services license ...