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Elders to axe 10% of workforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... will reorganise "as a pure agribusiness, with a sustainable capital structure and operations." A number of rural and regional branch offices will be closed or consolidated into larger branches, the company added. The jobs will be cut before the end of ...

ANZ reshuffles wealth division, Barrett to depart

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... appointed managing director of Insurance, effective December 2, 2013. George joins ANZ from ING Asia Pacific, where she was regional chief operating officer and based in Hong Kong. She has over 20 years' experience in financial services and has also ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... pushed into positive territory ahead of the release of the US Federal 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 ...

Netwealth nabs AMP exec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... Advice Group. Since 2010 Boston has been head of JIGSAW Support Services at AMP Financial Services. Prior to that he was a regional development manager at AXA. "The appointment of Peter has finalised the head office restructure of the business announced ...

AMP Capital sets foot in China

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... sets up the company to future deregulation of the Chinese funds management and investment space." "There are plenty of regional fund managers that would love to have access to the Chinese market, but very few of them know how to make it happen and commercialise ...

AustSafe gets MySuper approval

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... Queensland-based industry fund AustSafe Super has been granted its MySuper licence. The fund, which serves rural and regional industries and communities in Queensland, has 130,000 members and funds under management of just under $1.5 billion. AustSafe ...

US foreign exchange group sets up in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
Toronto-based foreign exchange and global payments company Cambridge Mercantile Group has opened its Asia Pacific regional office in Sydney, recognising the increasing importance of the local currency. Cambridge said a strong economy has seen the Australian ...

Australia, a middle power between China and US

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
Australia is seen as a regional "middle power" which gravitates between China and the United States, and can benefit from the Asian giant's turn towards an economy more focused on consumption. "Australia is a middle power and it has a different concept ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... The euro rose to $US1.3329 from $1.3304 late in New York on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets fell, with Tokyo leading regional declines with a four per cent plunge after comments from Federal Reserve officials sparked jitters over a likely pullback ...

Centrepoint locks-in CEO with incentive bonus

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... members after former PIS chief executive Peter Walther resigned in April 2013 and at least one state manager and four regional leaders left the firm in October 2013.