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Australian Ethical reappoints NAB custody

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) Asset Servicing has been reappointed to provide custodial services to Australian Ethical for three more years. NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) has provided custodial support and services to Australian Ethical since 2007. NAS ...

Rainmaker expands its investment capability with key appointment

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
Rainmaker Group, one of Australia's leading diversified financial services and wealth management industry information and publishing groups, has appointed former AMP and AXA head of advice John Dyall. As head of investment research for Rainmaker Information ...

La Trobe Pooled Mortgages Option gets record rating

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
Credit specialist fund manager La Trobe Financial has been awarded a 'Superior 4 A1/4' star rating by SQM Research (SQM) for its Pooled Mortgages Option. This is the highest rating ever awarded in the mortgage sector by SQM. The fund's Pooled Mortgage's ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
You oughta be congratulated! Clap, clap, claps are in order for the six sages (out of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg) who correctly anticipated the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) verdict to cut interest rates by 25 bps to a historic low 2.25% ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
Is Europe "dead in the water" or is it going to follow the growth trend in the United States in only two years? Economists at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum expressed different views on the future of the old continent. "They are dead in ...

Government to blame for fall in business confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
Business conditions are gradually improving, but confidence is moving in the opposite direction because businesses have been disappointed at the government's performance, Bank of America Merryll Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake said at the Financial ...

UK pension funds required to warn consumers

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to chief executive officers of pension providers to outline government plans to introduce additional protection for retirees wishing to access their defined contribution pension pot from April this ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
Australian investors and businesses must understand that China is changing at a fast pace and they should be quick to adapt to what will be the world's biggest consumer economy, AXA Investment Management head of Asia Mark Tinker said at the Financial ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
"Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus lane..." "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." (The New York Sun, 21 Sep 1897). It's hard to believe too given the depressing headlines about oil's slide (and more to follow) ...

Australia according to Gov Glenn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
Thank you Australian Financial Review (AFR) and RBA Governor Glenn Stevens for your early Christmas present - the gift of sharing. In what has now become a "tradition," we learned from the AFR Gov Glenn's thoughts on: The international economy: "The ...