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Big four fail in cross-selling retail super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
Australia's big four banks are failing to cross-sell their retail superannuation products to their existing banking customers, the latest Roy Morgan research shows. Each of the banks is capturing less than 20% of their customers' superannuation balances ...

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
Australia's largest financial services institutions have argued that vertical integration is positive for consumers because it helps market competition. The stakeholders have rebuffed the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) concern that vertical integration ...

JANA awards mandate to Loomis Sayles

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... seeks alpha from security selection and has limited macro elements. This type of investment leverages Loomis' greatest strength - research that is broad and deep, especially in credit." Loomis Sayles manages a total of $221.3 billion on behalf of global ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following solid gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0658 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,615. In Australia, company earnings season continues with ...

IRESS reports profit increase in Australia

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
IRESS has reported an increase in profit for its Australian and New Zealand arms in its half year results to 30 June 2014. For the local region operating revenue was up 6.3% with an increase in segment profit of 8%. According to the technology provider ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

UBS Dynamic Alpha Strategy wins large insto mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
UBS Global Asset Management's Dynamic Alpha Strategy Fund (DAS) has received a $260 million institutional mandate from a unnamed government funds management organisation in Australia. This follows a $400 million institutional superannuation investment ...

Consumer awareness of vertical integration plummets

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The number of consumers unaware that their financial adviser works for a dealer group aligned with the big institutions has significantly increased over the past year. In 2013, 51% of the clients using Commonwealth Bank-owned Financial Wisdom thought ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
It's so stupid, it's become not funny anymore. Talks about easing geo-political risk causing investors to go back into risk assets overnight -- the same way increased geo-political risk sent them away the night before. Geo-political risk down, Wall ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on international markets after a Malaysian airliner crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine in an incident some Ukrainians blame on pro-Russia separatist forces. At 0645 AEST on Friday, the September ...