Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 2371 - 2380 of 12434 results for "General"

Chant West head of client development to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... December 3. He said the firm has not yet made a replacement. Peck has previously worked at Colonial First State as its general manager of marketing, BT as head of superannuation services and Russell Investments as a managing director with responsibility ...

Westpac hit with $1.2bn of losses

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... In May, Westpac announced it will review its business units that did not deliver scale or returns, some of which were general and life insurance, and auto finance. Subsidiary BT has shut Wealth Connect and is cutting about 38 jobs. The bank has also ...

Gender doesn't influence company returns: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... the time period of the study, non-executive directors who sought endorsement or re-election from shareholders at Annual General Meetings received an average vote of 96% in favour," it said. "There was little meaningful difference in the board turnover ...

ASIC chair steps aside pending pay review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... expenses paid by the regulator following his relocation in 2018. According to a letter sent to the Treasurer from the Auditor-General, prior to Shipton joining ASIC, the regulator approved an engagement letter from KPMG to provide taxation services to ...

AustralianSuper ratings slide at Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
AustralianSuper is the latest casualty in Morningstar's ratings rejig, as three options with nearly 86% of its total $180 billion slide to the lowest analyst rating of "bronze". The superannuation fund's $135 billion balanced option, $13.5 billion high ...

Link rejects takeover offer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
Link Group has concluded the takeover proposal led by Pacific Equity Partners and Carlyle Group materially undervalues the business. The consortium, led by the two private equity firms was offering $5.20 per share via a scheme of arrangement. Link said ...

AMP Capital bets on AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
AMP Capital has announced it will roll out energy saving artificial intelligence (AI) technology to regulate building comfort and energy use automatically. The AI system will work to reflect changes in outside temperature and occupancy of the building ...

Societe Generale fined over client breaches

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... where the transferring sale proceeds from international trading in client's securities from trust accounts into its general bank account. The second breach of the Act and occurred when Pershing failed to ensure that client money received was held ...

ClearView seeks to raise at least $40m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... wholesale investors seeking to raise between $40-75 million. Clearview Wealth said the proceeds of the raise will be used for general corporate and capital management purposes. This will include repaying existing indebtedness of ClearView and support ...

Wealth platform adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
An investment platform for wholesale investors started by former Citi Wealth employees has added the general manager of distribution at Mortgage Choice to its board. David Zammit is joining the board of Stropro, as the one-year-old fintech looks to ...