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Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... Australian School of Business. Kovacevic said the changes are well overdue and will not - contrary to popular view - drive talent away from firms. "Such statements imply that executives lack responsibility and maturity - particularly in times such as ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... to the US, where it is expressed to mean that Irish people who did well in life, did so through sheer luck - not through talent, intelligence or hard work. It must have hedged its massive purchases of toxic assets with an equivalent amount of lucky charms? ...

Bell profit hit by bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Stock broking and financial advisory firm, Bell Financial Group, saw profit after tax fell almost 60 per cent to more than $14 million last year. The group posted more than $175 million in revenue for the 12 months to December last year, down more than ...

Perpetual appoints new staff, Walsh exits

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... since 2000 and was most recently general manager research and analytics for Perpetual Investments. Perpetual also sourced talent from outside the firm and appointed Warwick Boys from ABN Amro as its new general manager institutional sales and service ...

Superfunds on recruitment spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... should turn their sights on superannuation, with three super funds managing a combined $80 billion on the hunt for the best talent. Queensland-based Sunsuper, which manages approximately $12 billion, has advertised for an insurance services manager to ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... necessarily a good thing in that people aren't changing their teams appropriately," he said. "There will be an excess supply of talent emerging and some people will take the opportunity to expand their teams."

Embrace the recession: Salt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
Financial planners should welcome a recession because it weeds out less capable planners and allows solid practices to pick-up market share and grow, according to Bernard Salt, a leading commentator of demographic and consumer trends. Salt said it's ...

Planners spared AMP job cuts

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... bearing a big brunt of the slowdown. Executive recruitment companies are already noticing the reduction in the hunt for talent, Matthew Dale, director of consulting for Futurestep Australia told the Financial Standard last month. "From a job seeker's ...

Innovators, imitators and idiots

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... resourced players such as Yale. "It's obvious to me that few of those emulating Yale have the resources of Yale and the talent of Yale to pick the right managers." Paraphrasing market guru Warren Buffet, Barron's said, "First come the innovators, then ...

Westpac names merger team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
Westpac has named its top executives following the merger, with Rob Coombe appointed as the chief executive of the enlarged wealth management business, BT Financial Group. Geoff Lloyd, St. George Wealth group executive and head of Asgard Wealth Solutions ...