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Financial services only mildly innovative: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
The Australian financial services industry has painted itself as only mildly innovative according to a study by National Australia Bank (NAB). About 39% of small-to-medium enterprises in finance have suggested there is a culture of innovation among ...

GBST managing director to retire

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
The managing director and chief executive of industry software provider GBST has announced he wishes to retire. Stephen Lake, who has been with the company since 2001, informed the board that he will remain in the role while a successor is found and ...

ANZ completes $720m capital raising

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
ANZ has announced it has completed its $720 million share purchase plan offer. The bank's statement to the ASX said it will "accept all eligible applications and issue approximately $720 million of ANZ shares at $26.50 per share." The offer was originally ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...

Member direct investment needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Superannuation fund members should leave their money in a highly diversified option and come back when they retire according to an industry fund chief investment officer. Addressing a member direct investment options forum at an Australian Institute ...

Sigma wins industry fund equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Boutique firm Sigma Funds Management has won an Australian equities mandate from a Sydney-based industry superannuation fund. The mandate goes to Sigma's Select strategy, a high conviction broad cap value strategy that has outperformed the S&P/ASX300 ...

Highest paid industry CEOs revealed

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Australia's most handsomely paid chief executives received eight figure salaries in 2014, the latest research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) revealed. The ACSI 'CEO Pay in ASX 200 Companies' report A looked at the earnings ...

Industry gears for new settlement regime

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Custodians are on track reduce settlement times from three days to two days in time for the official regime change in March 2016. Firms are gearing up to start testing their readiness for the new T+2 Settlement regime in October. "Reducing settlement ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Australians all let us rejoice... for that recession we've long been longing to have might be just around the next bend. By now, Virginia, you would have read all about "Bloody Monday" - when "ASX loses $60 billion in worst day since the GFC" (9news.com.au) ...