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Insurance industry on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... industry for the past few years can be attributed to strong distribution growth strategies of the major retail insurers. "Competition among employers for the best candidates is strong and we are seeing premium salaries, as well as guaranteed bonuses ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... from Bradken Ltd and Cochlear Ltd, while Reckon Ltd, AACo and Alumina issue first half results. In Sydney, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel is to speak at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch. On Monday ...

IOOF agrees to buy North

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... potentially removing a major stumbling block holding back the NAB-AXA merger. The focus on the North platform is because the competition regulator, the ACCC, believes the North platform is likely to play a major role in future market innovation and if ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... and Rural Bank report annual results. In the Federal Court, judgement is expected in the case between the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and Cabcharge Australia Ltd. In Australia on Friday, the share market closed flat, paring back early ...

Industry backs MySuper reforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... welcomed the government's MySuper reforms but one industry body said more should be done to protect and encourage competition within the market. Pauline Vamos, chief executive at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), said the government's ...

SAP and Sybase merger gets ACCC tick

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has given the green light to SAP's $7-billion plus purchase of tech firm, Sybase, which provides complex event processing and analytics services used in the finance sector. According to an ACCC statement ...

NAB granted more time on AXA bid

PRESS RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... Holdings (AXA APH), AXA SA and National Australia Bank (NAB) have agreed to extend the period for NAB to address the competition commission's concerns till the end of August. The comes after all three entities announced they were close to extending the ...

Competition for ASFA awards heats up

FINANCIAL STANDARD WRITERS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
Superannuation marketers and communication managers will soon have the chance to go head to head with their peers at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Communications Forum and Awards next week. ASFA will showcase the best examples ...

ESSSuper drops VFMC for Towers Watson

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... fund. "We canvassed all of the major asset consultants and had a formal tender process," said Dundon. "It was close competition, [the] tenders were of excellent standard - but in the end we chose Towers Watson. "The fact that we had previously used them ...

Market Wrap - Mid-Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... cent, at $36.98. Fortescue Metals fell eight cents, or 1.94 per cent, to $4.04. Late on Wednesday, the Australian Competition Tribunal ruled that BHP and Rio will not be forced to open up their main rail lines in Western Australia to smaller iron ore ...