Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 7611 - 7620 of 10560 results for "BEI"

Super funds need to guide members: Investment Trends

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Superannuation funds need to offer guidance for their members with Investment Trends latest survey finding people want information from their funds to understand market volatility and how they should act. The 2011 Investor Sentiment & Communications ...

BNP Paribas closes in on $130bn AMP/AXA mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
BNP Paribas Securities Services is completing due diligence to secure the entire $130 billion custody mandate from the merged AMP/AXA Asia Pacific Australia and New Zealand. BNP Paribas has managed AMP's custody contract for the last nine years and ...

Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Australia's housing market continues to confound, not because it's expensive in world terms but because of the disconnect between people naively hoping for price reductions and everybody else complaining we aren't building them fast enough. The latest ...

MLC lands corporate super mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
MLC Business Super will manage the $15 million Clark Equipment Australia Group staff superannuation fund after being awarded the mandate, moving further into the corporate superannuation market. MLC will provide a tailored superannuation and employee ...

Super merger prompted by industry transition

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
CareSuper and Asset Super may merge later this year to create a 285,000 strong membership base with over $6 billion in FUM, with Care CEO Julie Lander to take the reins. The funds are in discussion about a possible merger, prompted by external industry ...

FOFA levels playing field: ANZ Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
The FOFA best interest duty proposals will level the playing field with advisers free to compete with super funds for intrafund advice clients, according to Paul Barrett, general manager advice and distribution, ANZ Wealth. The best interest test, as ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
It is being reported today that Treasury believe it was really former prime minister Kevin Rudd who saved Australia from the GFC and not the mining industry, but before we get too excited the analysis simply confirms that we don't just have a two-speed ...

SMAs drive interest into concentrated Australian equity funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Separately managed account growth is driving interest in the concentrated Australian equity fund sector, research house Lonsec has said. Lin Ngin, senior investment analyst for Lonsec, said there had been an increase in concentrated strategies, with ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Global pressure to contain debt is ironically one of the biggest threats to the world economy, warns the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde. Writing in the Financial Times, Lagarde said world economic confidence ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
The Australian market looks set to open lower, after Wall closed more than one per cent down following an earlier rally. At 0709 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down 49 points at 4,256. There is no economic news ...