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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... Australia (CEDA) on media in the 21st century. There is a slew of economic data to be released today including housing finance data for April, international merchandise trade data for May. ANZ Banking Group Ltd releases the May job advertisement survey ...

Bluestone repositions reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... were $466 million of reverse mortgage settlements in 2007. In April the reverse mortgage specialist Australian Seniors Finance wrote to mortgage brokers to inform them that it planned to stop taking applications for new loans. That decision took effect ...

When good housing news is bad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... and starts incentivising banking staff to write these loans or risk not meeting their sales targets. The Finance Sector Union said this week that nearly 60 per cent of banking staff are pressured to sell debt products even they believe the loans are ...

AustralianSuper appoints new BDM head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
AustralianSuper has appointed national secretary of the Finance Sector Union Paul Schroder as new general manager of business development. AustralianSuper chief executive officer Ian Silk said Schroder's relationship skills and extensive contact list ...

Aviva reshuffles its global deck

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... independently," he said. Craig Brackenrig, former chief financial officer of Aviva Australia, has also been promoted to finance director for the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore, with Rob Donaghy, former group director of product, marketing and ...

FinLit in schools in 2008

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... one of the key problems with financial literacy was, according to chairman Paul Clitheroe, that people in the financial sector "speak a different language". Will Morony, executive officer of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, said, "Financial ...

S&P to rate NZ financials

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
Standard & Poor's is set to launch a new relative ratings scheme for New Zealand non-bank finance entities. Standard & Poor's New Zealand Relative Strength Ratings will measure the relative financial strength of New Zealand non-bank finance entities ...

Gender pay equity in banking getting worse: FSU

... the participation of women in the financial services sector, extracted from a range of presentations at a Finance Sector Union symposium on pay equity held in Melbourne this week, shows an industry still out of balance. According to the symposium, gender ...

Another international DB fund bites the dust

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2006
... just announced the closure of their DB fund. In Australia, DB funds, after decades of being the premier superannuation sector, now account for only one-third of superannuation assets, down from more than 40 per cent a decade ago. In fact, exclusively ...

ANZ staff contracts misleading, union says

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2004
About 13,500 ANZ workers were being duped by unenforceable employment contracts, the Finance Sector Union said on Thursday. The contracts state that the ANZ may change an employee\'s position, their duties, location and working hours, given reasonable ...