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AMP half-year profit up 33%

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
AMP has released its half-year results for 2015, revealing a net profit of $507 million, up 33% on the previous corresponding period. Wealth management - including advice, platform administration, unit linked superannuation, retirement income and investment ...

IRESS sees profit in wealth management

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... demand in the wealth management segment with IRESS appointed as the financial advice technology partner for Commonwealth Bank during the period. IRESS also acquired digital advice platform Innergi. In its announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange ...

Super governance changes questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
The federal government's focus on accountability around conflicting interests in superannuation boards has been described as "curious" by lawyers reviewing proposed super governance legislation. A paper prepared by Hall and Wilcox Lawyers for the Australian ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... equities and cash." After NSW State Super, he had a number of jobs on both the buy and sell side including roles at Commonwealth Bank Asset Management, at Westpac Investment Management and at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he became an equity ...

Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... tourism sector - which accounts for roughly 10% of the economy - in addition to the hits from China's slowdown and the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) recent devaluation of the yuan, capital outflows out of emerging markets on speculation of a near-term ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... their currencies. We can blame it on the Rio... but it could never, never be us. For, according to the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) August Board meeting, "Domestically, economic activity had generally been more positive over recent ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Following on from China's "rule of three", the ECB has three of its own. The minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 15-16 July meeting revealed the three things that are keeping the governing council members awake at night - Greece, China and ...

Instreet grows sales team

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Boutique investment manager, Instreet Investment, has expanded its sales team with the appointment of two senior staff. Marcus Obermeder and James Poon join as sales director and head of product development respectively. A financial adviser and investment ...

Magellan adds infrastructure specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... Airport, where he was chief financial officer. Before that he was with Macquarie Group for over a decade. He was the investment bank's head of North American infrastructure and real assets and before that was global chief operating officer for the infrastructure ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
The Reserve Bank's two-pronged monetary easing measures look to have come to an end but our central bankers will remain watchful of the currency, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management executive director and global fixed income portfolio manager ...