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

Search Results

Showing 401 - 410 of 646 results for "Banker"

Vale William Mahoney

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
William Mahoney, who helped build Connecticut- based Bridgewater Associates into one of the world's most successful hedge funds, passed away on Tuesday, April 30 at the age of 55. Charles Ruffel, former equity partner and early fundraiser for Bridgewater ...

ANZ appoints global banking MD

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... financial intermediaries Asia Pacific, country head Indonesia and regional sales manager South-East Asia. "Fred is a career banker with extensive international experience in both wealth and private banking. We're delighted to attract someone of his calibre ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more...We must be over the rainbow!" -Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) And if not, we're surely on our way...and a pot of gold awaits (the metaphorical one of course, not the metal that's now in a bear market). Forget ...

Islamic finance forum to discuss Shariah growth opps

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
The Amanie Australian Islamic Finance Forum will be held at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne on 16 April. Amanie Advisors Australia has recently become one of the first specialist Shariah advisory bodies to be granted an AFSL licence this country. ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
It was bound to happen, didn't it? We've come full circle to the spooks that haunted through most of last year. Two weeks ago it was America and fears of Fed unwinding. Last week it was Italy and scares of a European debt crisis flashback. This week ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... by measures to cool the housing market, but Tokyo enjoyed modest gains as the man tapped to become Japan's top central banker vowed to tackle deflation. Shanghai lost 3.65 per cent, or 86.10 points, to end Monday at 2,273.40, Sydney slipped 1.49 per ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... re-accelerated to a 15-month high of 6.6% last month. Yes folks, Brazil's in stagflation condition - a dlilemma for any central banker.. The Brazilian central bank might need to stop shaving (interest rates, that is) - or worse, lift borrowing rates ...

Ex-Macq banker to head retirement home company

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
Ernst & Young's former South Australia managing partner and Minter Ellison advisory board member Mark Butcher will lead a retirement village company. On Tuesday Masonic Homes said Butcher, a prominent South Australian business leader, would become chairman ...

Big deal day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Ho-hum. Wake me up when it's over. "Twas another ordinary day in the market's today folks. The only news being the long wait for US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. According to Bloomberg, "He will make proposals for spending on ...

Two new La Trobe directors

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... is a charted accountant and principal with BRI Ferrier. Marriott, a highly experienced senior corporate and commercial banker having over 40 years' experience working with Australia's major banks such as NAB, Westpac and ANZ. While at NAB, Marriott held ...