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Securitor academy in the works

MICHAEL HOBBS REPORTING FROM THE CONFERENCE IN NEW ZEALAND  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
Securitor is to set up a paraplanning academy and launch an online self assessment program to help advisers beef up on their finance knowledge and better answer the questions of clients uneasy about the state of the markets. Speaking at the Securitor ...

Northern Trust names new Australia head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
Northern Trust has appointed Paul Cutts to head of the firm's Australian office in an effort to expand on the company's business throughout the Asia Pacific region. Cutts joined Northern Trust 15 years ago in London and has spent the last two years ...

Markets down, national happiness in positive territory

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
Despite the increasing focus on economics and financial markets, Australians don't seem much happier now than they were before, reveals the latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Report. The index, which has been operating since 2001, measures the "subjective ...

Pragnell moves to APCA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) head of policy and best practice, Brad Pragnell, has resigned to take a role as head of industry policy at the Australian Payment Clearing Association (APCA). Pragnell will start his new role ...

When good housing news is bad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
After months of share market swings, interest rate rises and petrol price jumps, news that house prices might climb 40 per cent over the next five years didn't quite get the reception you would have expected. Instead it just showed how bad the outlook ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US stocks gained overnight. Resource stocks may decline after commodity prices fell overnight, however. At 0706 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract ...

Don't strangle sovereign funds: OECD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned countries against enforcing greater foreign investment restrictions because it could negatively affect domestic economic growth. To address national security issues such as ...

Pension funds milk green trends

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
As inflows into sustainable investing continue to break records, a leading consulting firm has recommended that pension funds should start drawing up detailed policies to capture the sector's returns. According to research by Lipper FERI, inflows into ...

Future Fund investment team expands

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
The Federal Government's $59.6 billion Future Fund has beefed up its investment team after appointing five more senior executives. Nadine Lennie has been appointed to the role of Director, Private Markets and will work with Raphael Arndt to develop ...

US confidence down and up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
Consumer confidence in the US has fallen to a five-year low, driven by unrelenting negative economic news and the impact on consumption of the perpetually falling US dollar. But institutional investor confidence is up. The consumer confidence survey ...