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

Search Results

Showing 271 - 280 of 710 results for "Transport"

Australian Ethical adds operations lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... October 2018 to pursue other opportunities. He was in the role for less than 12 months. Heng joins from the Railway and Transport Health Fund where she held the role of chief technology and operations officer for six months. Prior to this, Heng was head ...

ACCC close to approving tobacco-free certification

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... subsidiaries and joint ventures in investment portfolios. This doesn't include tobacco growers and/or businesses that transport or retail tobacco products. The ACCC has opened public consultations and will hand down its final assessment of the mark ...

Frontier Advisors builds investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... side equity analyst role at Dubai-based Emirates NBD (Asset Manager). Her areas of research expertise are real estate, transport, logistics, oil and gas and logistics across MENA. She has a CFA and speaks French and Arabic. James Kosmatos was most recently ...

IFM Investors chair lays out priorities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... consortium to acquire a majority stake in the $17 billion WestConnex project. The 51% stake eventually went to the Sydney Transport Partners consortium in August. IFM has 329 clients in 19 countries. Earlier this year, it opened a Switzerland office ...

Chief economist update: Bottom line slows down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... September quarter from +1.8% in the June quarter); retail trade (-2.0% from +2.4%); wholesale trade (-1.1% from +3.1%); transport, postal and warehousing (-2.7% from +4.0%); and, "other services" (-8.1% from +19.8%). While profits in some industries ...

When aged care advice takes an emotional toll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... Seniors Health Card, which provides access to cheaper health care, discounts to electricity and gas bills, and public transport, Fenton said. Eligibility for the health card is based on assessable income, while assets are excluded, he said, noting that ...

Early release of super, FHSSS gaining traction: ATO

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
About $89 million of superannuation has been released on compassionate grounds just three months into the new financial year, according to the ATO. Of the 10,700 early super release applications received between 1 July 2018 and September 30, more than ...

Financial services employment to boom

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
The employment outlook for the financial services sector is at a six-year high, despite the Royal Commission. Latest figures from Manpower show the net employment outlook for the finance, insurance and real estate sectors is up 21% for the fourth quarter ...

Vanguard to launch new ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
Vanguard Australia is set to list two new exchange-traded funds on the ASX, enabling investment in international small companies and global listed infrastructure. The Vanguard MSCI International Small Companies Index ETF (ASX:VISM) and the Vanguard ...

Are ETFs really the next smartphones?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
Investment in exchange-traded funds can no longer be "phoned in" especially when the products are viewed as a transcendent technology that will reshape the traditional fund landscape. Using the analogy that smartphones have become less about calling ...