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China's $750bn pledge to clean tech aids sector

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
China's $750 billion investment toward clean technologies over the next decade will direct not just much-needed funding into the sector but make it more appealing to investors. Speaking at a one-day Deutsche Asset Management forum in Sydney this month ...

Fin centre plans hang in the balance: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... finance and regulation centre - arguing it will be detrimental to Australia's plans to become a global financial services hub. Minister Bowen, speaking yesterday at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual conference in Melbourne, argues that the ...

AMP fin centre opens first fee-for-service shopfront

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... even further post its launch." The AMP Financial Planning Centre is located at 20 Smith Street, Parramatta in the financial hub of Western Sydney. AMP is not the only planning group to roll out a retail initiative. MLC Financial Planning adopted a similar ...

APRA proposals could deter overseas firms: AXA

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) could stifle Australia's potential to become a regional financial hub. Speaking at the American Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Penn said Australia is attractive as a regional financial centre ...

Praemium preps more advisers to fee-for-service world

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
Praemium is expanding its planner target market by 80 per cent as the firm rolls out SMARTwrap - a service aimed at both fee-for-service and commission-based advisers, and those transitioning to a fee structure. Arthur Naoumidis, group chief executive ...

ING Aus opens Wollongong hub, to hire 600 staff

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... this morning opened the new ING superannuation and investments operations centre in Wollongong south of Sydney, the upgraded hub that is set to grow its staff numbers from 350 to 600 in three years. The four-and-a-half star green rated building cost ...

J.P. Morgan strengthens local derivatives hub

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
J.P. Morgan Treasury & Securities Services (TSS) is set to grow its local arm by at least 100 new staff this year and improve its derivatives-related services in Australia. David Braga, head of product at J.P. Morgan Treasury and Security Services Australia ...

Simpler, faster, cheaper rollovers: IFF

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
The Industry Funds Forum has launched an electronic commerce hub aimed at revolutionising super rollovers. IFF unveiled a new electronic commerce hub that aims to cut down processing time, cost, and simplify the process of rollover transfers between ...

RSPT is govt trying to pick winners: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... proposal comes at a time when the government is simultaneously trying to promote Australia as a regional financial services hub.

Govt to inject $25m into 'best practice' regulation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... Corporate Law, Chris Bowen, restated the government's lofty plans to make Australia the Asia Pacific region's financial services hub. As part of that plan, and in response to the Johnson Report, he said the government will build a new centre, called ...