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Instreet launches alternative

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
Boutique investment manager, Instreet has launched the Instreet Link Alternative Manager DPA, a structured product that invests in a range of alternative investment strategies, actively managed by three global investment managers. The new product is ...

Write-down clouds Bendigo's 43% profit tumble

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... lending portfolio had fallen more than 70% since its $8 billion peak in 2007. Cost containment and efficiency has been a major focus over the period 12 months to 30 June, and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank said that it would maintain a 55% cost-to-income ...

Advisers urged to discuss structured giving

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
Philanthropy director of Opportunity International, Stephen Robertson has said the increase in advisers initiating the philanthropy conversation with high net worth clients is worthy of recognition. While the decision to give is ultimately the clients' ...

Life readies for new cap increases

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... May 2009. APRA's guidelines aim to align insurers and banks, preparing insurance companies' capital balances to survive a major financial disaster. New standards for capital balances will be in place from 1 January 2013, and Challenger said yesterday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... 3,030.93. Sharemarkets in London and Frankfurt were weaker, but the French and Spanish bourses added value. Locally, the major banks have led the gains on Thursday morning following Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) record $7.1 billion profit on Wednesday. The ...

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... obligatory negatively sensationalised headlines but amid it all, financial markets took the fresh bad news on their stride. Major equity markets in the Asian timezone - those most affected by a harder than expected slowing in China - even rose strongly. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... 3,030.93. Sharemarkets in London and Frankfurt were weaker, but the French and Spanish bourses added value. Locally, the major banks have led the gains on Thursday morning following Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) record $7.1 billion profit on Wednesday. The ...

New AFS CEO

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... former CEO Peter Daly was forced out of the company. In June it was reported that Daly was suing AFS - in which he was a major shareholder - for unfair dismissal. Daley said he was suddenly forced out despite a satisfactory track record, and a budget ...

ASX flags concerns over losing single operator status

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... the exception of Europe, where there are multiple clearing and settlement facilities for the same securities, every other major equity market has single facilities. In a submission paper to the Council of Financial Regulators' on competition for equity ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... (SingTel) saying earnings fell 3.2 per cent to $S1.2 billion ($A915 million). Its shares were up two cents at $2.58. Among the major miners, BHP Billiton was down 13 cents at $32.76 and Rio Tinto down 24 cents to $56.36.