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Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Wall Street down... on Iraq... on escalating Middle East tensions... Sounds about quite right 'eh Virginia? After all, an escalation of conflict in the land of the sand dunes would lift the price of what's underneath those sand dunes - oil. This, in ...

IOOF appoints Perpetual exec to head Bridges

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
IOOF-owned Bridges Financial Services has appointed Nick Langton as its chief executive officer. Langton joins Bridges from Perpetual, where he was most recently general manager of private clients. During his time with Perpetual he was also acting group ...

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Irregularities amounting to more than $US5 billion ($A5.41 billion) have been found at China's sovereign wealth fund and two large state-owned banks, according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse into the opaque management of government-controlled ...

AIA Australia appoints CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
AIA Australia chief executive officer Peter Crewe is set to take up a new role based in Hong Kong, A and the insurer will have a new chief executive starting August 1, 2014. AIA Australia general manager of life insurance Damien Mu has been appointed ...

Research contradicts group risk claims crisis

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Price hikes widely anticipated in the super fund group risk market have not manifested in any more than a small handful of funds. That is the finding of the 2014 Rainmaker superannuation group insurance survey of 14,834 risk options offered by 206 super ...

UBS adviser banned from financial services industry

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Former UBS financial adviser was banned from the financial services industry for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. Sebastian Konjevic was a client adviser of UBS AG holding an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence from September 2005 ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
In May, Prime Minister Tony Abbott made good on his promise to be an 'infrastructure prime minister', dedicating billions of dollars to infrastructure development in the budget. But is this enough to get the bulldozers bulldozing? James Fernyhough takes ...

AFA to recognise best adviser and best practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has divided the traditional Adviser of the Year Award into two and will now recognise the best individual adviser and the best advice practice. "The original Adviser of the Year Award was established by the ...

PwC partner to join NAB board

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner will retire in July and join the National Australia Bank (NAB) as a non-executive director of the board. NAB chairman Michael Chaney confirmed that PwC partner David Armstrong's role as board director will start on August  ...

Former finance broker convicted for fraud

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
A former finance broker has been convicted of two fraud charges, following an investigation from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Riyanka Puteri Shiraz, of Canterbury, New South Wales, admitted to using the identities of ...