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Super inflows boost AXA profits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
AXA Asia Pacific has announced a 23 per cent post-tax profit increase to $374 million for the six months to 30 June, with the local arm's results helped by strong super inflows and equity market growth. Australia and New Zealand operating earnings were ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
Australian stocks are expected to consolidate yesterday's gains, as investors await the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision on whether interest rates will rise. At 0724 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index was ...

Opes Prime challenges Macq

Financial services provider Opes Prime has launched the Opes Prime Wealth Platform, an all-in-one retail prime brokerage service that will compete with a similar offering from Macquarie. The new service is tailored to the top end of the market which ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... more than US$360 billion in value and bargain hunters were out in force, buying up stocks made cheaper by a two-week fire sale. The New York investment research firm, Graham Fisher, has gone so far as to compare the current sub-prime calamity to the ...

Aon appoints head execs

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
Aon Australia has announced the appointment of a new general manager and a new NSW regional manager. David Plant brings more than 20 years industry experience across a range of areas to the role of general manager. Managing director of Aon Wealth Management ...

Skandia upgrades client support

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
Skandia is upgrading how they support their key dealership partners by introducing three levels of support that include account management, relationship management and centralising how they manage ongoing liaison between their key accounts and Skandia's ...

Standardise sustainability reporting: Finsia

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
A new study released by the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) has highlighted a potential $1.2 billion injection into Australia's bottom line GDP each year and a boost to profits if companies adopt standardised sustainability risk ...

CFS GAM appoints Australian Equities head

... he has held for the past four years, he oversaw a number of initial public offerings, rights issues, and the purchase and sale of shares in a Australian and international companies. Fanning boasts more than 15 years in the industry and has worked as ...

CBA launches $370m IWL offer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... best interests of IWL shareholders," said IWL chairman, Rob Bishop. CBA's offer came three months after IWL completed the sale of its financial services software business Visiplan to IRESS Market Technology. The deal is subject to shareholder and regulatory ...

Private equity, hedge funds at risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
Up to half all hedge funds, at least one major bank and a "substantial percentage" of private equity firms in business today worldwide will cease to exist within five years, according to predictions made by GMO chairman, Jeremy Grantham. In his quarterly ...