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Local jobseekers enjoy strong executive search market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... top talent at the lower end of salary expectations is closing. Jobseekers today have a better chance of negotiating higher bonus payouts and some employers are also signing guarantee payments to retain new staff over one to two years. A separate survey ...

Shadforth ramps up client book-buying strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
Shadforth Financial Group has created a team to focus solely on buying other financial planning practice books ahead of the expected regulatory changes that could result in a number of planners leaving the industry. Tony Fenning, head of Shadforth Financial ...

Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... Civil service pay cut -- by 5 per cent in 2010 and frozen next year. The 2,500 birth grant -- Spain's version of the baby bonus -- abolished by 1 January 2011. Public investment reduced by 6.045 billion in 2010 and 2011. Index-linking of pensions -- ...

CalPERS fights BoA directors election

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
One of the biggest pension funds in the US, CalPERS, has opposed the re-election of six Bank of America directors who failed to fully disclose the true financial condition of Merrill Lynch before the controversial merger in September 2008. CalPERS will ...

Industry prepares for new advice era

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
The government's proposed reforms to change the way planners charge for advice will spur the industry's long-term growth, but at the cost of serious headaches and profits during the adjustment period. The minister for financial services, superannuation ...

Govt response to exec remuneration falls short: Regnan

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
A specialist corporate governance firm is frustrated the government has not backed a proposal from the Productivity Commission's executive remuneration report that could better align departing executives interests with long-term shareholders. The Productivity ...

Time to grow: Securitor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST OF THIS YEAR'S SECURITOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE.  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Securitor, one of the largest financial planning groups in the country, maps out a growth strategy that will prepare its planners ahead of industry consolidation, tougher regulation and the nation's seismic $400 billion wealth transfer over the next ...

More super funds to introduce performance pay: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
Almost all super funds will have a performance component built into the remuneration packages of their senior management within the next five years, and there are more fundamental changes ahead in the way super fund executives and staff get paid as ...

Wall Street's $22bn bitter pill

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... from the US state's comptroller. Thomas DiNapoli, state comptroller at the office of New York State, annually releases its bonus estimates of securities industry employees that work in New York. The estimates found bonuses had risen 17 per cent to $22.5 ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
We knew 2010 would be challenging, but not this way. Not like this. Yes Virginia, we agreed that 2010 would be challenging. We thought it would be challenging because America would experience turtle-paced economic growth at best. We thought it would ...