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FPA board approves move away from commissions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... business is ready," said Bloch. The policy does not include risk products, rebates and related payments that are product directed payments to Australian Financial Services Licensees. At the same time, the FPA said it encourages the industry, product ...

Zurich launches heart awareness campaign

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
Zurich is launching a heart health awareness campaign directed at financial advisers to help clients learn about heart-related diseases risks. Men fare worse than women with this distorted perception on their health status, according to results released ...

Hamer joins Pengana

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... month's announcement that Nicholas-Applegate had shut down its Australian offices, with all client services to be re-directed back to its San Diego headquarters. Hamer boasts 20 years of investment industry experience gained in institutional business ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... owners of companies, or the shareholders, and the managers, or the company boards. Eight of these recommendations were directed at institutional shareholders and how they can play a bigger role in shifting investor attitude from rewarding short-term ...

Oasis looks to SMAs and ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... accounting functions. Oasis Fund Management Limited is the trustee and operator of a superannuation master trust and Investor Directed Portfolio Service (IDPS) products. MoneyOne.Com.Au Limited is responsible for the development of desktop and online ...

Austock closes high yield fund

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... fund and Austock Australian Equity fund, to Martin Ryan in May this year. Ryan was one of the founders of the firm and directed the asset management business. The ASX statement said Austock Group's business strategy is to simplify its business structure ...

NY fund blacklists Gazprom and Petrobras

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... companies failed to meet even the minimum requirements of the risk mitigation programs we initiated two years ago. I have directed our external equity managers to liquidate our positions in these nine companies," said DiNapoli. "Those managers will reallocate ...

Aberdeen cools on China

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... is in addition to our concerns regarding the rate of monetary expansion in China. In particular we are concerned that directed bank lending may prolong the removal of excess capacity and expose the banks to potential non-performing loan issues down the ...

Nicholas-Applegate closes Australian offices

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... manager Nicholas-Applegate said it is going to shut down its Australian offices tomorrow, with all client services to be re-directed back to its San Diego headquarters. Susan Hunter, the company's spokesperson, said that effective tomorrow, all client ...

FLEXCUBE helps London and Middle East

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... customer's wealth. This enables customer profiling, overall lifecycle management and will help the bank to deliver self-directed and advisor-driven solutions to its customers. "We are using Oracle FLEXCUBE Private Banking because it enables us to provide ...