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Online risk applications surpass paper-based: Asteron Life

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
Asteron Life research in 2012 revealed that the group was receiving three electronic-based risk applications for every two paper-based requests, prompting the insurer to redouble its efforts on addressing the technology aspect of providing risk advice. ...

Moody's downgrade drives demand for Aus bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... the downgrade hurt market sentiment but raised demands for Australian bonds, Tony Morriss, ANZ head of interest rate research told AAP. "With this downgrade, Australia now has the third largest triple-A stable bond market in the world, after Germany ...

Accountants in demand

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
Accountants are one of several professions that are in short supply in Australia, new research has revealed. The Clarius Skills Index for December shows that accountants, along with engineers, IT professionals, corporate services managers are in high ...

CBUS to review custody operations

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... to take a few months and a final decision might be made early in the 2013-2014 financial year. According to Rainmaker Research, custody services segment in the superannuation market is dominated by JPMorgan Chase Bank and National Australia Bank Asset ...

Morningstar Australia announces 2013 award winners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... on fund returns over one, three and five-year periods; performance in the 2012 calendar year; and based on qualitative research, including the manager's people, process, philosophy and style approach. Funds with less than a three-year track record, however ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... http://www.financialstandard.com.au/, can also be accessed in the app through the 'Breaking News' section. For investment professionals, the research tables on super funds and managed funds performance data - supplied by Rainmaker Information and publishers ...

Maple-Brown Abbott moves into global listed infra

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... infrastructure investments are currently run by Australian managers at 31 Decemeber 2012, according to Rainmaker. Rainmaker research also shows that the average gross return from listed infrastructure funds over one, three and five years are 17.26% ...

Smart beta ETF take-up to double in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... like 20%. Superannuation funds can't ignore them forever." UBS launched its own smart beta ETF in Australia, the UBS IQ Research Preferred Australian Share Fund in October 2012. Mark Oliver, managing director of iShares, says that the most popular smart ...

Instos on verge of piling into Asian bonds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... countries, sectors and currencies in the region," Briscoe continued. "And we believe very strongly in solid, on-the-ground research conducted as part of a global effort which applies both quantitative and fundamental techniques to generate local and ...

EU-wide ban on CDS pointless

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Academic research from Imperial College found that Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads are a poor proxy for sovereign default risk, suggesting that the EU-wide ban on naked CDS positions is unlikely to achieve its aims. Lara Cathcart, senior lecturer ...