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PROFILE: NAB head of wealth Andrew Hagger

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
While the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, National Australia Bank (NAB) head of wealth Andrew Hagger preferred to take the long way. His journey from the quiet suburb of Adelaide Hills to Melbourne CBD stretched through over ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... cannot will be victorious." - Lao Tzu, 'The Art of War' That "when" to fight must be nigh. Rumour has it that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) is preparing its own QE programme - prompted by the PBOC's recent approval allowing regional governments to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... markets continued to watch the dollar, which rose to a fresh 12-year high against the euro two days after the European Central Bank launched a massive government bond-buying stimulus program. The Federal Reserve, meanwhile, is winding down its extraordinary ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... dropped 16 cents to $34.73 but oil and gas explorer Santos was up three cents to $7.36. Among the big banks, Commonwealth Bank was down 24 cents at $90.44, Westpac had fallen 21 cents to $37.46, ANZ was five cents weaker at $35.25 and National Bank had ...

CBA rolls out IRESS systems to all advice groups

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has extended the use of its IRESS technology solutions to all of its financial planning groups. IRESS was already deployed within CBA-owned Count Financial and the Commonwealth Bank's Business and Private Bank. The new agreement ...

ASIC bans Charterhill director from financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Charterhill Group founder and director George Nowak has been banned by ASIC from practicing financial services until 3 July 2017. The grounds for the ban are that Nowak is an undischarged bankrupt, having applied for personal bankruptcy in July 2014. ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
2015 has already been a bumper year in financial services policy with super front and centre. Reforms to improve superannuation governance, competition and transparency appear to be the first cab off the rank. These reforms look likely to occur in a ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... for mirror, mirror on the wall, the greenback is the fairest of 'em all. Latest available data from the US Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis show the "Trade Weighted U.S. Dollar Index: Major Currencies" at 91.57 as at 6 February. This is the best level ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... healthcare stocks leading the way. "The yield play is back on," he said. "It looks like the start of the European Central Bank's buying program has reminded people that we're in a low yield environment, and they've drifted back to those sectors that ...

Spring lists on ASX

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... Group, specialist advisers to medical professionals and Moneytree Partners Group. Spring recently appointed former Macquarie Bank Group director Guy Hedley as chairman and KTM Capital as corporate advisers.