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Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
Towers Watson has described the growth of alternative assets as 'inexorable' following the release of its latest report on the sector. The Global Alternatives Survey, which was conducted in conjunction with the Financial Times, total global alternative ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... million a year ago. The Fed minutes of the June meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee showed the central bank plans to end its bond-buying stimulus program in October but won't begin raising its near-zero benchmark interest rate ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Pamplona, Spain but... everywhere. But unlike in Pamplona, there appears to be little chance of being gored, not with the central bank offering almost perpetual succour or for as long as they could. The minutes of the Fed's 17-18 FOMC meeting reminded ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... all higher, ANZ 16 cents better at $33.51, Westpac 21 cents up at $34.16, NAB lifting 15 cents to $33.82 and Commonwealth Bank climbing 30 cents to $81.53. The big miners were mixed, with BHP Billiton 13.5 cents higher at $37.715, Rio Tinto losing 20 ...

BetaShares appoints AFR columnist as chief economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... several years in the financial markets as a senior economist and interest rate strategist at Bankers Trust and Macquarie Bank, later becoming a columnist at the Australian Financial Review. He began his career at the Commonwealth Bank before taking a ...

Platinum and Iress named 'laggards' on sustainability

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... the 'comprehensive' category was 43 in 2014, compared with 17 in 2009. That 43 included, ANZ, Wespac, National Australia Bank and Dexus Property, all of which have been in the 'comprehensive' category for four years. Outside financial services, this ...

CBA unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... the Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) will lift the minimum education standards for its financial advisers and demand that they belong to a professional association. ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Monday as investors prepare for a deluge of profit news from the United States. American investors are heading into the start of the US reporting season in an optimistic mood, with the Dow Jones ending ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." -- Walt Whitman "The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted ...

Retired High Court judge to chair CBA review panel

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
Retired High Court Justice Ian Calllinan will head Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) independent review panel for the Open Advice Review program that will assist victims of bad financial advice between 2003 and 2012. Callinan will advise CBA chief executive ...