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Asset diversification gathers momentum

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
Institutional investors continue to diversify their investment portfolios into alternative assets, increasingly via direct funds rather than funds of funds, according to global data from Towers Watson. The data shows that in 2012 its clients - which ...

Macquarie Life outperforms in satisfaction stakes

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
Macquarie Life has been awarded a five-star status for overall satisfaction in the Beaton Benchmarks 2012 - Life Insurance Intermediaries Study for the fifth consecutive year, making it the only provider in the Australian insurance market to achieve ...

Aust custody and admin sector hits $2 trillion

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Due largely to a reenergised equity markets, total assets under custody for Australian investors grew by 8.7% to $2.03 trillion for the second half of the year to 31 December 2012, according to data released by peak industry body ACSA today. Industry ...

Loomis Sayles to launch CLO locally

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Apostle Asset Management has advised Financial Standard of plans by its client, Boston-based Loomis Sayles, a subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management to bring a next-gen CLO fund to the Australian market later this year. Expected be one of the ...

Global listed property outperforms global equities by 8.6%

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Due to investor appetite for yield and safe-haven sectors, global listed property had significantly outperformed most major asset classes during 2012, a research paper reveals today. While fund performance has been impressive in an absolute sense, the ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available now

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
In the new edition of Financial Standard we review the issues that some of Australia's chief economists expect to define 2013, and feature the latest thinking in the social media space, as well as latest news, views and regular features. Financial Standard's ...

ME Bank launches premium treasury service

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
ME Bank will launch a new premium treasury service for wealth management advisers at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) conference in Melbourne on Wednesday. According to ME Bank general manager liabilities Michael Donohue, the ...

Bell Direct ranked top online broker

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Online share trader Bell Direct has again topped the customer satisfaction rankings for online traders, ranking first in 15 out of 16 categories in the Investment Trends Online Broking Report for the second half of 2012. The rankings reflect positive ...

Banks raise $15bn in wholesale markets

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
Based on strong underlying appetite for Australian bank paper and improved wholesale funding costs - significantly below the rates they're willing to pay for term deposits - total funds raised by major Australian banks in the wholesale markets just ...

New claimants join class action against CBA

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
New claimants will participate in a class action brought against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia over the sale of complex debt instruments by Gloucester Shire Council in NSW and self-managed superannuation fund Clurname in the Federal Court last ...
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