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Trends in market expectations

Rainmaker Information has compiled data over the last 12 months revealing the market expectations of fund managers, banks and research houses in comparison to those of superannuation funds and master trusts. The expectations were recorded across six ...

Basis new fund yields maiden one-year return

... grow the yield fund to $250 million and currently has strong interest from superannuation funds, Wrap providers, private banks and financial planners.

Second round of executive appointments for NAB

NAB has followed up the revamp of its executive committee in late October with four new appointments at senior executive level in keeping with the implementation of the bank's fresh strategic agenda. In the current round of appointments Gordon Lefevre ...

Mapping the way forward

... quick panacea as investors undergo the painful but necessary process of re-pricing risk in a world where global central banks are no longer underwriting risk-taking". Armitage adds any "position unwinding will be a short-term phenomenon." Armitage's ...

Small caps ensure managers outperform benchmark

... towards smaller companies relative to the S&P/ASX 200 index. The underperformance of NAB and CBA are the less preferred of the banks by institutional investors, which has kept smaller companies in favour. The best performing managers over the 12 months ...

In the end it's all about relationships

... Dowling said the major message is about service being the differentiating factor not product. 26 per cent of corporates say banks need to understand their business and 25.5 per cent identified enhanced electronic platforms as an important bank service. ...

NAB becomes first big bank to post 2004 profit fall

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2004
National Australia Bank today became the first of the Australia's big banks to report a fall in 2004 annual net profit and said the result reflected problems that had been accumulating for years. NAB, which has been battered by a $360 million rogue ...

Macquarie to buy 70 per cent stake in Brussels Airport

... per cent, pocketing 352 million euros that it will use to pay down debt. The airport's minority shareholders -- including banks KBC, Dexia, Fortis, insurer AXA and holding companies GBL and Ackermans & van Haaren -- will sell their entire stakes in the ...

Strength in RFIs

... with an economic downturn following the ratings agency's latest review. RSIs are comprised of the smaller rated regional banks and non-bank financial institutions. The institutions have taken advantage of the recent favourable economic conditions including ...

Retail focus maintains strong performance for St George

... its 'Integrated Sales and Service Strategy' has underpinned strong lending growth. S&P however pointed out that like other banks St George currently experiences an intensification of margin pressure especially in price competition for retail deposits ...