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New Westpac chairman announced

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Ted Evans, Westpac Chairman, has announced his decision to retire and his successor was revealed to be fellow board member, Lindsay Maxsted. Mr. Evans joined Westpac's Board in 2001 and became Chairman in 2007. "With the success of the St.George merger ...

RI Advice partners with Tas bank

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
ANZ Wealth's RI Advice Group has furthered its strategy of aligning with local groups to expand business, partnering with Tasmanian financial institution B&E Personal Banking. Bringing to the alliance some 36,000 Tasmanian members, the partnership between ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index covering second-tier emerging markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of ...

Talent shortage needs attention

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Talent shortages in the financial services industry needs to be addressed by senior executives with gender diversity the answer, according to a global finance careers firm. Discussed in Melbourne last week, firm eFinancialCareers said that financial ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
On the last trading day of April, I opened my daily piece with: "... this is investors' last day to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away"." And concluded that, "... it might be prudent to bag some of those profits and go away in May. Just ...

Ex UBS managers resurface for Bennelong small caps fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Bennelong Funds Management has joined forces with former UBS portfolio managers John Campbell and Jeremy Bendeich to launch an Australian small caps fund. Campbell and Bendeich, who have been on gardening leave since departing the UBS Small Companies ...

TOWER Australia changes to TAL

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Life insurer TOWER Australia Group is set to become TAL Limited by November. TOWER is changing its name to TAL after completing extensive research in the lead up to a licence deadline when a five-year agreement with TOWER Limited of New Zealand to use ...

Super funds fail on carbon disclosure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Australian super funds accused of not 'walking the walk' after the nation's first climate change resolution did not pass, despite voting funds saying they support carbon disclosure. The vote was held at Australian oil and gas company Woodside's annual ...

Energy Super first feature rollout

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Energy Super, the newly merged offspring of ESI Super and SPEC Super, has taken its first actions in the market with the creation of a discount program targeting existing and new members. The program offers Energy Super members' discounts on a range ...

High level super talks on now

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Top superannuation fund chiefs are today locked in high-level talks with Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten on a range of issues including raising the superannuation guarantee. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation ...