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SSFS appoints general manager to drive expansion

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
State Super Financial Services (SSFS) has created the role of general manager of business development to drive corporate and institutional partnerships. James Panaretos has been appointed to the role and will be reporting directly to SSFS managing director ...

ASIC eyes fee for service funding model

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider changing the regulator's funding model to one partly based on fee for service. In a submission to the Murray inquiry, ASIC proposed to charge ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and securities regulators have opened up an examination into whether high frequency trading (HFT) firms are involved in insider trading. According to reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

AXA IM includes ESG in smart beta offering

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... can complement one another. In the introduction, the paper argues: "Though seemingly unrelated, we believe the two trends signal a move by investors away from unintentional and often uncompensated risks associated with traditional index-tracking strategies." ...

SEC prioritises cybersecurity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
Speculation is growing in the US that the financial regulator will impose uniform cybersecurity standards across firms operating in the financial system. Awareness of cybersecurity as a systemic threat has risen following realisation that the financial ...

Aussie shares out of favour as managed fund investors go global

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Despite the Australian market achieving double-digit returns, investors have slashed their allocations to domestic share funds over concerns that the Australian economy will not be able to successfully transition away from the resources-led boom. According ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
"I was only joking my dear Looking for a way to hide my fear What kind of fool was I I could never win." - Rod Stewart President Putin fought the G7... and the G7 won. At least that's how it appears after Vladimir ordered his Russian troops back to ...

Ripoll demands parliamentary debate for FoFA reforms

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
Shadow Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bernie Ripoll has called for a full parliamentary debate for the government's proposed Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. "We need a proper parliamentary debate rather than force changes ...

ANZ profit on the rise in first quarter

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
ANZ revealed a double digit jump in its first quarter profit, on the back of growth in home lending and a surprise fall in bad debts ANZ's cash profit in the three months to December 31 grew by more than 13% to $1.73 billion. It is now on target to ...

Emulation funds slash performance as well as cost

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... of the biggest pitfalls of emulation is that it fails to exploit the short-lived information value of the original trade signal. This leads to significant losses that appear to outweigh the benefits of reduced transaction costs," CMCRC PhD candidate ...