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PROFILE: PGI chief executive Grant Forster

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Principal Global Investors (PGI) chief executive Grant Forster's first job at a Woolworths supermarket was hard work. He remembers long eight-hour shifts packing fridges, stacking shelves and assisting customers. "It taught me it was an area I didn't ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open a touch lower, as gains on Wall Street offset losses in the local market on Thursday. At 0648 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,615. US stocks have pushed higher ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... This, or all the money printing they have done (including the Fed's) and are doing, would have been for nought. No central banker would want that.

Senior executives come in threes for Koda

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
Independent private wealth management firm Koda Capital recently appointed three experienced executives from Macquarie Bank and Morgan Stanley. The appointments include Charles Moore and Simon Duckett from Macquarie Bank and Mark Pollasky from Morgan ...

Ausbil appoints head of institutional business

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Ausbil Investment Management has appointed Ross Youngman as head of institutional business. Youngman was most recently chief executive and executive chairman of Five Oceans Asset Management, following positions with Deutsche as chief executive of Deutsche ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Australia's top bankers will have to explain what went wrong in their advice divisions at a public Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday. Chaired by Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the Senate Economics Committee will interrogate Macquarie Group chief executive ...

Local Government Super names new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Following the conclusion of Bruce Miller's two year term, Local Government Super director Craig Peate has been appointed chair of the board. Miller will continue as a director and has taken up the position of deputy chair while Peate brings more than ...

Vertically-integrated advice model can work

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
Despite recent controversies, vertical integration can work if implemented properly, according to Australian Bankers' Association chief executive Steven MA1/4nchenberg. Speaking at the ASIC Annual Forum, MA1/4nchenberg said that conflicts were inherent ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Call it what you will -- 'patient panic' or 'patient party' - the fact is all and sundry dropped what they were doing to hear (or not hear), read (or not read) the word 'patient' from the Fed. It's there no more... with "not impatient" taking over its ...

PM Capital CEO leaves, replacement announced

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... firm and had worked there for 14 years, stepped down at the end of 2014, a PM Capital spokesperson confirmed. Investment banker Ben Skilbeck replaced Donohoe in February 2015, PM Capital said. Skilbeck was most recently a chief executive at quantitative ...