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Independent providers fail at cross-selling banking products

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... very little success at selling banking products to their customers. Only 1.6% of industry fund personal members deal with ME Bank and only 2.7% of personal AMP Superannuation Fund members deal with AMP bank, a research by Roy Morgan shows. In the business ...

RBC to close Melbourne custody office

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Redundancies are on the cards at Royal Bank of Canada's custody arm, RBC Investor and Treasury Services, after it confirmed it will be closing its Melbourne operations and moving the entire Australian business to its Sydney headquarters. The move is ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... backward-looking indicator and this is a forward looking market right now." Among the major banks at 1025 AEST, the National Australia Bank was down 28 cents to $32.63, ANZ had dropped 24 cents to $29.81, Westpac had fallen 23 cents lower $31.71, and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... Reserve's "Beige Book", which gives a read of US regional economic conditions and could provide clues on whether the central bank is likely to taper its aggressive bond-buying stimulus program. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended Wednesday up 0.10 ...

Wickham Securities chairman banned for two years

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
The chairman of the collapsed lender Wickham Securities has been banned from financial services for two years and seven months. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has banned Bradley Thomas Sherwin after he declared himself bankrupt. ...

Trophy infrastructure assets too expensive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Large, marquee infrastructure assets seem over-priced in the face of the huge sums high profile institutions have paid in recent years, according to Towers Watson senior investment consultant Duncan Hale. Large global investors have raced to buy infrastructure ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... backward-looking indicator and this is a forward looking market right now." Among the major banks at 1025 AEST, the National Australia Bank was down 28 cents to $32.63, ANZ had dropped 24 cents to $29.81, Westpac had fallen 23 cents lower $31.71, and ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... shoebox that could fit only one shoe. You know where I'm going with this, don't you Virginia?A Where else but the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy setting.A It decided to hold fire and keep the official cash rate at 2.5% after its Board ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... quarter, along with overseas arrivals and departures numbers for July. Meanwhile, the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for month just ended is due to be released. No major equities news is expected. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... bit subdued due to the lack of a lead from US markets, due to the Labour Day public holiday. Mr Spooner said the Reserve Bank of Australia's monthly interest rate decision at 1430 AEST on Tuesday was unlikely to have much of an impact on the market ...