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ANZ addressing women's financial futures

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
ANZ has launched a range of new measures aiming to address gender equality in the workplace, recognising there is more to be done in addressing the issue. From today ANZ will make annual top-up superannuation payments of $500 to permanent and fixed-term ...

EU instos shed banks, set up alternative trading venues

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
In a scenario that could be replicated in Australia, higher capitalisation requirements have limited European banks' liquidity and have forced institutional investors to set up alternative trading venues. "The ability for banks to trade and to provide ...

NZ looks to Trowbridge for life reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
New Zealand's Financial Services Council (FSC) has commissioned a report on life insurance advice, with Life Insurance and Advice Working Group chair John Trowbridge selected as an adviser for the project. Consulting actuaries Melville Jessup Weaver ...

ASIC issues digital disclosure guidance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
ASIC has issued a new digital disclosure guidance for financial services product providers who want to step up their use of the internet to deliver offer documents, disclosures and personal statements to clients. Under the new guidance, product providers ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
Declining bond yields, an uncertain equities landscape and an appetite for diversification are driving institutions towards alternative assets. Alex Burke investigates whether this is the right idea. When Perpetual acting general manager for regulated ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
Recent high-profile mergers and acquisitions of aligned advisers by independent groups are a sign of a growing trend. In the past three months, former ANZ managing director of advice and distribution Paul Barrett's firm AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
It was the best of times then... it became the worst of times. 'twas only three months ago, the New Zealand dollar climbed higher and higher against the Australian dollar and was widely expected to breached parity because "...the NZ dollar genuinely ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... broader All Ordinaries index lost 22.2 points, or 0.44 per cent, to 5,556.8. NEW YORK - US stocks have sunk deep into the red as weak Chinese factory data and US home sales numbers outweighed Amazon's unexpected blockbuster swing into profit. The Dow ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... Composite Index fell 10.74 (0.21 per cent) to 5,208.12, snapping a streak of three straight record highs. The Dow was in the red all day after IBM reported lower revenues for the 13th consecutive quarter and United Technologies cut its earnings forecasts ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Asian hedge fund manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders ...