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PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
By his own admission, Colin Kelton barely understood what Vanguard did when he applied for a job at the company. But 25 years on he's now principal and managing director of the Australian operations of the $4.4 trillion asset manager, and he can't imagine ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
US retail sales A solid and faster than expected increase in US retail spending in May suggests that, perhaps, the Fed was correct in dismissing the highly disappointing May non-farm payrolls report as just "noise". Overall retail sales expanded for ...

Gardior appoints ANZ vet as new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
Wholesale infrastructure investment manager Gardior has appointed a new director to its board. Ian Gillings joins Gardior as the representative of shareholder Australian Catholic Schools & Retirement Fund (ACSRF); he will also sit on the Gardior's utilities ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
Australia business confidence "The RBA's cut to interest rates did not help lift business confidence as we had hoped, even as sales activity continues to improve." This was how National Australia Bank's (NAB) chief economist, Alan Oster interpreted ...

MLC appoints retail insurance sales GM from BT Life

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
MLC has appointed a new general manager of retail advised insurance sales. Russell Hannah joins MLC from BT Life, where he led the group's specialist insurance sales team, having been acting head of sales - retail wealth products at MLC before that. ...

Aspen Group CEO, CFO and chair depart in restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
... but deemed it to not be in stakeholders' best interests, because properties in the portfolio have yet to be "optimised for sale" as well as legal issues, transaction costs and "unrealised tax assets."

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
Giant global banks and consumers alike have found old fashioned solutions to the unusual problem of having to pay institutions to hold their cash deposits - safes, vaults and strongrooms are back in vogue. Japanese hardware stores report demand for ...

Bennelong expands institutional sales team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
Bennelong Funds Management has appointed an associate director, institutional sales. Jeremy Crowley joins Bennelong from Treasury Group, where he was distribution associate for the last two years. In this role, he was working with institutional prospects ...

RBC makes senior hire from BNP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
RBC Investor & Treasury Services has appointed a new director of global client coverage. David Goodacre joined RBC in May; prior to that, he was sales manager - Australia and New Zealand at BNP Paribas Securities Services. He held other roles at BNP ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
Australia ANZ job ads Continued improvement in the Australian labour market in the coming months. This is the indication from the ANZ's latest job advertisement tally. Total job ads increased by 2.4% - the fastest pace in eight months - 157,942 - the ...