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Former Treasury Secretary joins NAB Board

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
Dr Ken Henry AC will join the National Australia Bank Board on November 1 as a non-executive director after retiring as Treasury Secretary in March this year. Henry was awarded Companion in the Order of Australia (AC) for services and his work in the ...

FPA reveals advertising impact

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
The Financial Planning Association claims that its $2 million national consumer advertising campaign is already reaping new business for its members thanks to a surge in online activity. Since the campaign, which spans television, print and online was ...

Snowball chief announces exit plans

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
Tony McDonald, chief executive of transitioning planning firm Snowball Financial Group, will leave the company in 12 months but not before spending the year in a new role where he will ready the merged group for industry reforms. The move is part of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
The Australian market has opened higher following a dramatic turnaround on Wall Street in the final 15 minutes of trading. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index is up 66.6 points, or 1.7 per cent, at 3,938.7 and the broader All Ordinaries index is 65.1 points ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
Jumpy! This is the word that came to mind when I was watching last night's trading action in the financial markets. Is it only me or has anybody else noticed that the "bounce around" in share prices have been shortening lately? It used to be a matter ...

ANZ Wealth appoints head of advice delivery

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
ANZ Wealth has appointed a new head of advice delivery to provide dealership services to its advice businesses. Raelene Seales has been appointed head of advice delivery for ANZ Wealth. In her new role, Seales will establish and lead the Advice Delivery ...

Bulls see red

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
A sea of red swamped the world's equity markets - from New York to Rio and old London town - over the past 24 hours. As I've been warning the past few weeks, the global economy is weakening, the odds of another recession has increased and this is sapping ...

JP Morgan head Perry resigns

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
Jane Perry, JP Morgan's head of Worldwide Securities Services, Australia & New Zealand, will leave the firm this year to pursue new opportunities in the local market. Her replacement has already been appointed. Perry has been in the role since November  ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
Now that's what I'm talking about. See what a little concerted, decisive action does. Global equity markets rallied following news that the European Central Bank, in coordination with the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and ...

IOOF combines multi managers and adds director

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
IOOF will simplify its multi-manager offering by combining its two product suites and closing a number of funds at the end of the month. The diversified financial services group will embed its United Sector Leaders Funds within the IOOF MultiMix suite ...