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CBA brings in foreign expertise for board

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... Bank's board. Shirish Apte, a former chief executive of Citi Asia Pacific, will join as a non-executive director on June 10. Sir David Higgins, chairman of the company currently developing a high speed rail network in the UK, and the boss of London's ...

Former Future Fund MD joins Qantas Super

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
Industry stalwart Paul Costello has been appointed as a director on the Qantas Super Board. He replaces General Sir Peter Cosgrove, who stepped down from the boards of Qantas and Qantas Super last January to become Australia's Governor-General. Costello ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... much lower likelihood is given to asset purchases, which were seen by just 8 per cent of the economists." Is this all? Please sir... could we have some more? These are what economists' expect. But supa-dupa Mario might give some more. He said so last ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... strengths as a nation is our capacity to innovate and invent. And our medical researchers have led the way, from Howard Florey to Sir Gustav Nossal and from Fiona Stanley to Ian Frazer. Australians have, through research and innovation, saved millions ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... difference is that BOE Governor Mark Carney's problem is the kind of problem everybody likes to have. Before Mark replaced Sir Mervyn as king of the BOE last 1 July 2013 - financial markets clamoured for more policy stimulation because (as speculated ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

OneVue reshuffles board ahead of IPO

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
OneVue has overhauled its board ahead of its IPO, with three members stepping down, but chair Gail Pemberton retaining her position. Major OneVue shareholder Michael Cole will depart due to time constraints and potential conflicts of interest, the company ...

Michael Hintze to join Financial Systems Inquiry

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
The founder and chief executive of global fund manager CQS Sir Michael Hintze is one of four appointments that have been made to an advisory panel to support the Financial Systems Inquiry (FSI). The International Advisory Panel will provide an expert ...

Advisers have to act in client's best interests: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... obligations are "a classic case of regulatory overkill". Abbott's comments follow on from SPAA patron and former High Court judge Sir Anthony Mason who explained at SPAA's recent annual conference that under Common Law financial advisers were required ...

HIP Super CEO resigns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Health Industry Plan (HIP) Super chief executive Ross Bernays has resigned from his role effective immediately and ahead of the super fund merger with Prime Super. HIP Super confirmed Bernays' resignation and a spokesperson of the fund told Financial ...