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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... with companies saying activity is picking up more than expected going into the year-end holiday shopping season. But the Commerce Department reported that US construction spending fell a second straight month in September, for a 0.4 per cent annual decline ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... annual general meetings scheduled. Suncorp chief executive Patrick Snowball is slated to speak at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Tuesday improved from a poor start but still closed marginally ...

Manage super on the go with new Wealthtrac app

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... Communications Authority show as at May 2014 more than 12 million Australians owned a smart phone. "The penetration of mobile commerce or M-Commerce, defined as undertaking banking or paying bills or buying goods and services online using a mobile phone ...

Financial Wisdom and Count also subject to higher standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... these licensees will be required to hold either an advanced diploma in financial planning; a degree in finance, business, commerce or a related field; certified financial planner professional designation, a fellow chartered financial practitioner professional ...

PROFILE: Goldman Sachs Asset Management head of fixed income for Asia-Pacific Philip Moffitt

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... banks. "It was just dumb luck to be honest," Moffitt remembers. "Just about everyone with good degrees in economics, commerce or finance was finding their way into one of these foreign banks and I did too." The bank that became his home for the next ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel is slated to speak at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch in Adelaide and the Northern Territory Major Projects Conference is on in Darwin. In equities news, BHP Billiton ...

BMO creates intermediary sales director role

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... president and national distribution manager. He began his career in equities at Commonwealth Bank, has a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Western Sydney and is a qualified financial adviser. "With more than a decade of experience in ...

CBA 'open-minded' about Bitcoin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... the notion that the banking sector is "oblivious" to Bitcoin. Speaking at an event hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Sydney this week, Narev said the bank is open-minded about the controversial digital currency. "I was interested to see us ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... Supply's annual conference in Sydney. Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev is down to speak at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch, also in Sydney. CSL, The Reject Shop and Dick Smith Holdings hold their annual general meetings. ...

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... leaves no doubt that he is, in his own words, a Toronto boy. Born and bred in the eastern part of the city, he studied commerce and actuarial science at the University of Toronto. His first job was as an actuary at life insurance company Canada Life. ...