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BTFG restructures investment business

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... number of separate investment business units under the same umbrella. BT Investment Solutions, as the division will be known, ties together Advance Asset Management, Westpac Online Investing and BT's own in-house advice model portfolio construction team ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... while Westpac was down five cents at $32.74. Woolworths was 91 cents weaker at $31.35 as Caltex wound back its fuel network ties with the supermarket giant. Sonic Healthcare had dropped $1.08, or 5.9 per cent, to $17.32 after the international pathology ...

Ties between product and advice "archaic": FPA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... was "detrimental to innovation." In its second submission to inquiry, the FPA described the current regulatory and cultural ties between financial products and financial advice as "archaic." "Financial advice has more to offer investors than the distribution ...

"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... that the bulk of an 8.9% drop in rural exports accounted for much of fall in the overall figure. Non-rural exports up 1.1% (ties in with the 'voluntary' stockpiling in manufacturing doesn't it?). The other side of the net exports equation - imports of ...

Fortnum completes ANZ buy-out

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... objective financial advice, and our clients and member firms felt it was essential to standalone, unencumbered by institutional ties," he said. "Fortnum has always had a client-first strategy, which aims to drive margins and hidden fees out of products ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... According to reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are looking into ties between high-speed traders and major exchanges, examining whether the firms are getting preferential treatment that ...

CSIRO to study super spending habits

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, Deborah Ralston, said the Centre was continuing to strengthen its ties with industry. "We've seen very positive engagement from the Super industry since we launched in September last year with ...

Combet joins IFM Investors board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... of Parliament, Combet spent eight years as ACTU secretary, and six years before that as assistant secretary. He has close ties to the industry fund movement. Between 2002 and 2007 he was a director of AustralianSuper, which is by far the biggest investor ...

Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
The dramatic lift in confidence arising from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive stimulus measures has created opportunities for investment to flow between Australia and Japan in both directions, according to Nikko Asset Management chairman ...

Professional Associations Super rebrands to Kinetic Super

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... commented: "recent ABS data shows an increasing movement of jobseekers across occupations and industries. Our member and industry ties over the last 20 years have given the fund unique insights into this trend, and we believe Kinetic Super will be best ...