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Research reveals gender gap in share appetite

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... funds increased by 13% for males compared to 7% for females," CFSGAM economic and market research senior analyst Belinda Allen said. "However when it comes to the amount of additional money investors allocated to shares this rose 5% for males while falling ...

Corporate governance still needs to improve in Asian markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... scored 69% and Hong Kong 66%, they are still issues of concern, according to secretary general of the organisation Jamie Allen. According to Allen, investors, companies and regulators in the Asian markets must make an effort to improve corporate governance ...

New chair at Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... Wilderness Society, Greenpeace Australia, Choice, the CSIRO and a number of financial organisations, including as a director of Allen Consulting Group. For the last 17 years Cole has been a senior investment consultant and executive in Mercer's Investment ...

Risk control software targets HFTs

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... apply a hierarchy of safeguards and oversight to all their electronic trading across asset classes," said InfoReach CEO Allen Zaydlin. "We're empowering them to identify risk as well as arrest or control it on a real-time basis."

New Westpac director to start in Feb

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
Former chairman of Allens law firm, Ewen Crouch will start as an independent non-executive director on Westpac Banking Corporation's board from February this year. Crouch has headed Allens' board since 2009, and is recognised as one of Australia's best ...

Legg Mason chief replaced to staunch investor outflow

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... step in as interim chief executive during the board's search for a permanent replacement while lead independent director W. Allen Reed will become non-executive chairman. Fetting had steered the company through the fallout of the GFC since 2008 but had ...

Older investors dumping equities

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... providing a transparent measure of investor behavior," said CFSGAM's senior analyst investment markets research Belinda Allen. The index indicates a low preference for equities in all age groups except for investors under age 35. Investors in the 35-49 ...

ASFA, FSC applaud passing of SG rise

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... Age Pension and assist more working Australians to a better quality of life in retirement." ASFA pointed to research from Allen Consulting Group, which it commissioned, that claimed the rise in the SG rate to 12% would lead to a 0.33 per cent increase ...

MTAA Super names new chief and board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... at MTAA for four years, has been named the fund's new chief executive officer, after previously heading up AvSuper. Vicki Allen and Susanne Dahn have been appointed independent members of the board, while Philip Perdikaris joins the board as an employer ...

Eaton Vance launches first Australian domiciled fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... standards, and we believe that issuer fundamentals are strong with current defaults well below the historical average." Nicholas Allen, country representative for Eaton Vance in Australia, is optimistic about the fund's prospects in Australia. "Eaton ...