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NAB and Aviva rule platform land

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
NAB's acquisition of Aviva Australia's Navigator business will create the largest platform provider with $69 billion in funds under management and more than 2,900 advisers using its services. NAB, which announced it had agreed to purchase Aviva Australia's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after significant falls on Wall Street and in Europe as profit-taking hit commodity-based stocks. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 58 points lower ...

Changing the face of super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Market your super fund as a financial security company and you'll engage the most materialistic group of people in history - Generation Y, said an industry expert. Scott Pape, author and founder of The Barefoot Investor and a speaker at today's Rainmaker ...

It's all about China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
The times...they really have changed. Will this be Generation Next's new economic order. I speak of course about the fast increasing dominance of China in the world stage. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates unchanged at 3 per cent ...

CAAM eyes credit and currency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) is shifting the firm's global fixed income strategy's emphasis from specific country exposure to a sector based strategy that targets credit securities and currency plays. CAAM Global Bond fund's recently released ...

Instreet a hit with planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sydney-based boutique firm Instreet Investment raised nearly twice its initial target of $20 million in an Australian equities product that taps into planner demand for "certainty" in the midst of the global financial crisis. The asset manager celebrates ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Whoa boy! Take it easy. How many times have we been admonished by our elders to chew our food slowly right in the middle of chomping down a big chunk of that juicy, tender, savoury steak? Not once, not twice but many, many times. Because it is the me ...

The good news in good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
Five weeks and counting. Wall Street and other equity markets chalked up another positive week heading into Easter. The early buds of a bull run or another dead cat bounce? Questions such as these make the answer plain and simple. And it is that there ...

Vision Super banking goes live

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
Members of the $4.2 billion Vision Super can now access their allocated pension funds directly through ATMs and Visa Debit cards with its recently launched banking service. Vision Super teamed up with Cuscal last year to provide the super fund's members ...

Nominations open for 2009 Rainmaker Marketing Awards

FINANCIAL STANDARD IS OWNED BY RAINMAKER GROUP  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Rainmaker is calling on the 18,000 readers of Financial Standard to nominate people and firms they believe would be worthy winners of the 2009 Marketing Excellence Awards. The awards are for marketing excellence shown during the period April 1, 2008 ...