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WB Financial launches SMA service with Praemium

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
Wealth management firm WB Financial has relaunched its Agentia separately managed account (SMA) service on the Praemium platform. The service is available in super and non-super structures and it includes 11 new diversified model portfolios. The models ...

Suncorp reacts to "deteriorating" situation in life risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
Suncorp Life will conduct a $350 million write-down of intangible assets that will affect the company's net profit after tax for the 2014 financial year, but not its dividends. The life insurance business told the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) ...

Intra-fund advice is also a commission: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) said that asking for a ban of commissions on general advice is "hypocritical" when intra fund advice itself is "non-transparent." FSC policy and global markets director Andrew Bragg and senior policy manager Cecilia ...

Second PM Capital LIC now trading on ASX

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
PM Capital's second listed investment company (LIC), the PM Capital Asian Opportunities Fund, is now available to trade on the ASX. PM Capital has raised $225 million across two IPO's since November 2013. The second IPO was targeted at investors looking ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after markets in the United States lifted overnight and iron ore prices stabilised. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said investors were feeling positive on the back of mostly encouraging manufacturing ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The prospect of rising interest rates has forced institutional investors to sit up and take notice of product innovations in the fixed income market. But with so many strategies to choose from, how do large investors and their advisers choose the right ...

OneVue adds former IOOF exec to leadership team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Managed account provider OneVue has made more additions to its executive team in the run up to its IPO, adding two new senior executives. Former head of compliance at IOOF Thomas Robertson has been appointed as head of corporate services and former ...

Blue Sky directors buy stake in Alternatives Fund IPO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Three Blue Sky Alternative Investments non-independent board members will invest at least $1.35 million in aggregate through the initial public offering of the manager's Alternatives Fund. Blue Sky chairman John Kain, Alexander McNab and Andrew Champion's ...

ASIC bans former Westpac trader

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Former Westpac Institutional Bank trader Jeremy Kaviraj Nambiar was banned for eight years from financial services for creating fictitious trading entities and a false document. Nambiar worked at Westpac during 2009 and 2010 and he was in charge of ...

Franklin Templeton nabs Deutsche AWM bond specialists

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Franklin Templeton has added two Australian fixed income specialists to its investment team, both coming from Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. Chris Siniakov will join Franklin Templeton as managing director, fixed income, while Andrew Canobi will ...