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Macquarie says market conditions improving

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... FICC was still expected to be down on last year's result, although it could be broadly in line with 2013 if recent improvements in market conditions persist. "Consistent with our previous statement to the market, while market volatility makes forecasting ...

Centuria appoints facilities manager

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... facilities manager to manage 8 Central Avenue is aligned with Centuria's commitment to ensuring the maintenance and improvements of assets within our portfolio. It also represents our continued strategic focus on acquiring and managing quality properties ...

Frontier market corporate governance greatly improved

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... platform and are introducing new accounting, environmental and public regulation as well as including conditional social improvements as part of the tendering process for commercial licenses.. Advance Emerging Capital chief executive and chief investment ...

Government releases FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013
... to streamline the fee disclosure statement process and we will continue to work with Government and Treasury for improvements in this area," FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) asked for additional clarification ...

Australia's whistleblowing regime far from best-practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... from international best-practice." Griffith University professor and whistleblowing researcher A.J. Brown asked for improvements and changes to Part 9.4 AAA of the Corporations Act in a submission to the Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian ...

High frequency trading improves market fairness

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... Electronic, algorithm-based trading has been in use since the 1970s but concerns have escalated in recent years as improvements in technology have allowed trades to happen ever-faster rates speeds. Opponents of the practice say that it gives traders ...

FSS increases insurance premiums

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... have more equitable and stable pricing of our insurance arrangement." These price increases follow major insurance improvements introduced by FSS in 2009 when TAL took over the fund's group insurance contract from Metlife. The premium changes come into ...

Legg Mason appeals to retail after lowering minimum investment

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... straight-through processing service for platform fund flows, which is expected to provide risk management, cost and efficiency improvements.

Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... to emerging markets powered by developed markets may not be as strong as in past recoveries, we think even small improvements could drive outsized gains for emerging-market stocks," Harting explained. "Companies most directly tied to developed-world ...

Half of infrastructure investors unhappy with fee structures

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... fund managers are making concessions in this area to attract investor commitments," Bradbrook continued. "Although improvements have been made in recent years, it is vital that fund managers are able to effectively articulate the reasoning behind the ...