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More Macquarie advisers flock to Shaw

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Shaw and Partners (Shaw) has appointed five more Macquarie veterans just weeks after the private wealth firm hired three others from the financial services giant. Former Macquarie Private Wealth Victorian state manager Malcolm Cameron has taken on the ...

Saxo opens up access to trading platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Saxo Bank is giving its clients and partners open access to its trading infrastructure so they can develop it, customise it and integrate it into their own applications and systems. The move covers Saxo's multi-asset trading and back office infrastructure ...

FIIG offers Apple bonds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Fixed income specialist FIIG Securities has added Apple bonds to its DirectBonds Service, giving private investors, SMSFs and clients of financial planners their first chance to access the bonds. Like the 300-plus other bonds on the DirectBonds list ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
The UK government has enlisted a former Lord Mayor of London and property expert to pitch flagship real estate projects to Australian superannuation funds. Sir Michael Bear served in one of the world's oldest surviving elected roles from 2010 to 2011. ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Australia's giant neighbours have been the world's largest source of growth for years. But the great investment opportunity is full of traps and markets often fall in erratic behaviours. Laura Millan asks eight key questions to understand Asia and to ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Hedge funds should be thriving in the unusual low return environment. But instead of turning to the rock stars of funds management, investors are choosing safer and cheaper options. As managers warn about an Australian brain drain, experts talk about ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Mark Wills once managed to play rugby, go to university, have a job and meet his future wife within a single year. But after managing to juggle so many activities during the early years of his career, today State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street following a mixed batch of earnings reports and another big decline by technology giant Apple. At 0815 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down ...

Industry fears the Uber of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
Financial services stakeholders fear that it is only a matter of time before technology companies take over the sector, just like Uber has bypassed the taxi industry, a BNP Paribas report showed. In the '2025: The Future of Wholesale Banking - And What ...