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QIC appoints new board directors

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
QIC, Australia's third largest institutional fund manager with over $58 billion in funds under management, has appointed David Usasz and Grant Murdoch to its board. QIC's Chairman, Peter Young AM, said the new directors had been carefully selected to ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... due to "declining confidence" on Congress' ability to agree on measures to reduce America's debt. However, it still affirmed USA's AAA. Please don't get me wrong. I'll take any hint of optimism I can get. Just as we've been witnesses to the destructive ...

Vanguard founder joins MLC board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... an industry veteran after initially starting out as an assistant economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in the USA back in 1979," said MLC chair Geoff Tomlinson "Since then, he has held a series of senior roles over 30 years at Vanguard ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
It's Thanksgiving Day in the USA. This means it's a trading holiday in the USA. This means that us, in the Asian time zone, would have to do make do without a GPS today. This means that we'll be running around like headless turkeys. And it doesn't help ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... consequences of political gridlock on America's credit-rating - as it did during back in August when Standard & Poor's downgraded the USA from AAA to AA+. The negotiation's failure doesn't mean the end of the world. It just means that there's more negotiating ...

US Girl Scouts launch financial literacy merit badge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... girls, need some basic financial literacy skills," said Suzanne Harper, director of program resources for Girl Scouts of the USA, according to reports in the Moneyland financial news website. Responding to the need, the US Girl Scouts merit badge will ...

Wealthy prefer online shopping

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
New research into online shopping shows that men not women are driving the charge, that wealthy people do it more often and that the 'touch and feel' factor is no big deal. Real estate group CBRE surveyed 10,000 people across 10 European countries and ...

netwealth aims to plug gaps in planner needs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Independent platform provider netwealth has launched a new online service for advisers providing more efficient back office capabilities to help cater for the requirements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms. netwealth said that the 'next generation' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Telekom slumped 7.6 per cent after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit to stop the company's merger of its unit T-Mobile USA with AT&T Inc. The latest European data published Wednesday was, in fact, downbeat - inflation remained steady at 2.5 per ...

PIS names new CEO

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... insurance broker and risk adviser, Marsh. Prior to that, Walther was vice president, Leveraged Finance Group with NatWest USA and Fleet Bank, specialising in high leveraged transactions. Grahame Evans, group managing director of Professional Investment ...