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ASX chief announces immediate resignation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... director Elmer Funke Kupper has announced his immediate departure. Funke Kupper, who has been ASX chief executive since October 2011, is currently involved in an Australian Federal Police investigation into allegations of bribery at Tabcorp in 2009 (when ...

NZ Super announces merger mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... organization." The NZ Super Fund had about NZ$28.3 billion ($26.2 billion) in funds under management as at 31 January 2016. As at 1 October 2015, Ramius had about $13.8 billion in assets under management. The mandate appointment is effective from tod ...

Statewide COO departs, successor appointed

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... takes the COO position having headed up information, communications and technology business activities at Statewide since October 2014. Prior to Statewide, she was general manager at Schneider Electric. She has also held roles at HP, EDS and Fujitsu ...

Bad news on global activity and prices is the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... flash manufacturing PMI fell to 51.0 in February. While still above the 50 expansion/contraction demarcation, it ties with October 2012's reading as the lowest "since the recovery began in late-2009". The details are woeful with Markit commenting that ...

IAG appoints new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... also the chair of Virgin Australia and a Westpac director. She replaces Brian Schwartz, who announced his retirement in October 2015 and said he was "honoured to have led IAG and I am pleased to have someone of Elizabeth's calibre succeed me as Chairman. ...

Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... market. The UK's unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1% in the three months to November - the lowest level in 10 years (October quarter 2005). The lead from the claimant count stats indicate further progress in the jobs market that would use up "the remaining ...

Advisers halt HNW slide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... largely steady over the past year, with an estimated 440,000 individuals controlling investable assets over $1 million as at October 2015, edging down from 445,000 in October 2014. Investment Trends estimates HNWs' collective wealth now amounts to $1.55 ...

Annuity sales growth drive up Challenger 1H16 profit

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... products on its FirstChoice and FirstWrap platforms. Local Government Super, Caresuper and legalsuper followed suit in October.

Who can dig a deeper hole?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... over the next six months to support growth lift inflation - Sweden's core inflation rate have been weakening from 1.1% in October last year to 0.91% in December. The aim of negative interest rates is of course similar to those of very low interest rates ...

mFunds grow by 77%

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... also showed that usage of the service by investors has been slower than expected, with only $8.4 million transacted in October. ASX head of customer and business development Ian Irvine said at the time that take-up was "slower than we were expecting," ...