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

Search Results

Showing 3441 - 3450 of 4543 results for "Michael"

Ex-IOOF exec joins Bellwether

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
Boutique Australian equities firm, Bellwether Partners, poached former IOOF executive director and Perennial Investment Partners founding director Tony Hodges to join its board of directors. With more than 34 years of investment and financial service ...

NAB in talks to buy ABN AMRO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
National Australia Bank (NAB) is in discussions with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to purchase ABN AMRO Australia Holdings' investment banking and wholesale banking businesses in Australia and New Zealand. A NAB statement released on the Australian ...

Plum reloads for HNW clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
Plum Financial Services relaunched its financial planning division, developed a pension product and revamped its website to better cater for high net worth (HNW) members. The firm's financial planning service, which includes 60 financial advisers, was ...

Businesses weighed down by choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
A survey of payroll managers found 60 per cent of respondents found the choice-of-fund process frustrating and labour-intensive, costing an average business tens of thousands of dollars each year on administration spend. The joint survey conducted by ...

Aviva outsources to S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
Aviva Australia's research division is outsourcing its investment fund research to Standard & Poor's Fund Services. Previously Aviva Research managed all its research operations internally. As a result of the deal, Aviva will have access to the research ...

ING taps Ukraine insurance market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
ING Group extends its reach in Eastern Europe after receiving approval to provide its life insurance services in the Ukraine. The firm is expected to begin servicing this market from its head office in the country's capital, Kiev, in the first half ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... futures contract fell 67 points to 4,927 on a total volume of 10,437 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the market delivered what would have been expected after a two per cent fall in the US market overnight. "We've ...

New ombudsman service welcomed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
Consumer groups and financial service providers have backed the launch of the new Financial Ombudsman Service, which provides one point of contact for most disputes or complaints across banking, insurance and investments. The service is the result of ...

ASIC bans three Westpoint planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned three more financial planners involved in misleading clients on Westpoint products from providing financial services. The regulator banned New South Wales based Timothy Harrison from ...

Aviva cuts super to pension admin time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Aviva Australia improved its online adviser software, n-link, to enable financial planners to set up pension accounts and allow clients to receive payments in three days, a fraction of the time needed on other platforms. Previously, financial advisers ...