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Financial service execs earn big bucks

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... latest executive salary report. Unsurprisingly, Big Four bank bosses feature prominently high up the list with ANZ chief Mike Smith taking top spot with a total salary including bonuses of $9.67 million. Westpac's Gail Kelly is just behind and easily ...

TAL crowned life company of the year

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
TAL has been named Life Company of the Year in CoreData's Annual Risk Report. The insurance giant scored highly on CoreData's three most important attributes - having a strong customer focus, competitive cover definitions and the ease of doing business ...

Multi-asset funds react to lack of diversification

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
Multi-asset funds are evolving to become less focused on peer relative performance and more centred on providing investors with a real return, according to a new Lonsec report. The research house says that in the face of stricter regulation and increased ...

Yellow Brick Road targets Big Four bank employees

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
Yellow Brick Road is making a bid to poach disheartened staff from the Big Four banks with its latest recruitment drive. The financial services firm is looking for experienced finance industry professionals to fill posts for its new Wealth Agents business ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... index futures contract was 18 points higher at 4,438 points, with 4,688 contracts traded. Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said talk of an early election had kept the local market subdued in early trade. "The screen is full of perhaps an early ...

Super reforms should not kill off smaller funds: Quadrant

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
Super and financial advice reforms don't necessarily have to put small super funds under the pump, according to Quadrant Super CEO Wayne Davy. It is widely anticipated that reforms such as MySuper, and the downward pressure on fees that result, will ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
Calls for further regulation and stricter capital requirements will unnecessarily shackle our liquid banks, says Clime Asset Management's John Abernathy. In a new report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the big four banks - Commonwealth Bank ...

Bear market end in sight: AMP Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
There are some pretty good signs that the secular bear market may be coming to an end, according to AMP Capital's Shane Oliver. Since the galling crash of the dotcom bubble in the summer of 2000, the stock market has struggled to provide investors with ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... contract was up four points at 4,427. No major economic news is expected on Friday. In equities news, ANZ chief executive Mike Smith is scheduled to address the British Chamber of Commerce in Melbourne, while David Jones, Beach Energy AGM, Perseus Mining ...

Property set for attractive multi-year returns: Stan Life

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
Now is an opportune time to increase exposure to global real estate assets with high single digit returns on offer for the next three to five years, according to Standard Life Investment's Anne Breen. Unloved for much of the post-GFC period, commercial ...