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Retailers should be wary of Amazon: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... in Australia has potentially dire consequences for local retailers. One-in-four (25%) respondents strongly agree the e-commerce giant will negatively affect home-grown retailers; while two-in-five (41%) agree with this prediction. Only one-in-four (25%) ...

Tanner appointed to Suncorp board

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... Insurance abandoned its long-term efforts to acquire Tower Limited, halting its High Court appeal against the New Zealand Commerce Commission's decision to veto the move. In a statement to the ASX, Vero announced it received notice of termination from ...

Suncorp ditches plans for Tower acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... Vero Insurance has abandoned its efforts to acquire Tower Limited, halting its High Court appeal against the New Zealand Commerce Commission's decision to veto the move. In a statement to the ASX this morning, Vero announced it received notice of termination ...

Students to manage university fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Top third-year Bachelor of Commerce students at Griffith University will actively manage a $250,000 investment fund with the purpose of generating returns to fund future student scholarships. Launched earlier this week, the Student Investment Fund will ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... to two years, particularly in cyber-security defence, Lane told a recent BAE Systems and Australian British Chamber of Commerce event. Australia's financial services industry is a high-profile target internationally for cyber-security threats, but the ...

Australia lax in fighting financial crime

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... experts. ANZ financial crime risk professional Rachel Waldren told the BAE Systems and Australian British Chamber of Commerce panel discussion that despite being well regulated and spending large amounts of money in detecting and preventing financial ...

Tower lodges cross appeal to NZ High Court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... In a statement to the ASX, Tower advised that it has now formally lodged its own cross appeal against the New Zealand Commerce Commission's decision to decline Vero's application to wholly acquire Tower. The deal would have seen Vero acquire 100% of ...

Young Aussies driving sharemarket

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... Gen Y's up 21%, though nabtrade conceded that this was off a low base. Perhaps unsurprisingly, international tech and e-commerce stocks proved most popular across all demographics with Apple, Tesla, Facebook, Tencent, Amazon, Snap and Alibaba among the ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... 2.7%. To be sure, the lift in retail spending has already been telegraphed by the sharp increase in the Department of Commerce's consumer sentiment index - up to 121.1 in July from 117.3 in June. More encouraging was the rise in the consumer expectations ...

RARE expands to meet growing demand

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... brings a wealth of experience to RARE including senior positions at K2 Asset Management, Zurich, BT Funds Management and Commerce Asset Managers in Kuala Lumpur. "We are excited to have someone of Jenny's calibre join our team," Williams said. The appointment ...