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AMP gets court date for China fund appeal

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... China Merchants Bank, China Minsheng Banking Corp, China Vanke Cok, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine. Despite LIM Advisors' wind-up proposal - made on the basis that AGF is "not fit for purpose" - AMP Capital is urging unitholders ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... advantage of the shorter-term opportunities that arise in emerging markets' currencies as the Fed keeps applying the same medicine of monetary forbearance, which can generate short-term boosts to asset prices," Fine said.

PPS launches life insurance mutual offering

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... life risk mutual offering. Under this model, select retail investors within particular professional fields (including medicine, accounting, law and engineering) can "share in the profits of the insurance that they buy" through financial advisers, according ...

Colonial First State appoints independent super director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Kaldor Public Art Projects; a member of the advisory council at UNSW Medicine; an advisory finance committee member at Sisters of Charity; a member of Chief Executive Women (CEW) and an ambassador for ...

Philanthropists award $1.5m to medical researchers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
The Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations have distributed almost $1.5 million to seven biomedical researchers. The foundations' trustee, Perpetual, confirmed that $1 million of the philanthropic funds will go towards research that is looking to reduce ...

BOQ appoints former Wallaby as specialist chief

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... has agreed to become CEO of BOQ Specialist. Brett is a qualified medical professional, has had a successful career in medicine and financial services and has developed extensive networks throughout his professional and international rugby career," said ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
The success of technology start-ups and Australia's maturing venture capital sector are driving superannuation funds to reconsider VC as an asset class. In September, First State Super and Hostplus invested $110 million and $35 million respectively ...

SMSF Association launches accreditation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... The SSP program begins on August 10 and will have a practical approach that the SMSF Association has compared to GPs in medicine or paralegals in the legal profession. "From our perspective those who earn our new SSP designation could be seen as GPs ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... elsewhere. Moore found them in Ireland and in Span through investments in banks and property: "Ireland took the hard medicine first, bottomed 18 months ago and is now growing stronger. Spain and Italy were slower and more reluctant to change, but we're ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... fact that Australian banks are late to the party in raising their capital levels, with global banks having taken their medicine years ago." Comparing Australian banks' price to earnings ratio (PE) with its global peers, Laurence said that CBA, for example ...