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Kelly switch shifts M&A landscape

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
The appointment of Gail Kelly as Westpac's new chief executive is likely to change several merger and acquisition scenarios. Kelly is formally on six months leave (under the terms of her St George Bank contract) before taking the helm at Westpac in ...

St George chief moves to Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
Westpac ended its extensive search for a successor to long time chief executive David Morgan when it appointed St. George Bank's highly regarded chief executive Gail Kelly to the plum role. During Kelly's tenure at St. George, the bank more than doubled ...

QIC and QSuper pour $28b in alpha-beta mandates

Vanguard and State Street are among the winners of QIC's radical move announced a year ago to invest $28 billion in separate alpha and beta strategies, with both fund managers awarded around $3 billion each in passive mandates. Many super funds have ...

Gen X-ers choose brokers over banks

Many young people, especially those aged under 35, rated brokers as exerting the most influence on their mortgage choice, according to a new study commissioned by CPA Australia. The research found that while 27 per cent of those surveyed used a broker ...

CommunityCPS launches charity foundation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
Financial institutions in Australia routinely celebrate their wealth and profit results but more are trying to harness this to drive community marketing initiatives and charity foundations. The latest institution to do launch a charity foundation is ...

AFA soft skills forum attracts 600

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
The soft skills traveling forum conducted by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) last month attracted more then 600 advisers and delegates throughout Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane and Melbourne who heard how they can develop their ...

The price of pain

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
Nothing like a good cash injection to stabilise ailing equity markets, or in the Bank of England's case, offering the patient a drip but at a price. Equity markets suffered another bumpy ride on Friday night with the Dow roller coasting again, dropping ...

Centric snaps up lending firm

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
Centric Wealth has acquired boutique lending and brokerage firm Kingsbridge & Eagle (K&E), expanding its lending division and taking it further down the path of a European-style private bank. K&E specialise in providing mortgages, commercial finance ...

US securitisation provisions cost Mariner Bridge

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
Mariner Bridge yesterday announced a full year net profit of $4.1 million, offset by a $10.4 million provision for the company's investments in the US securitisation market. Including a further $5 million provision for 2008, Mariner will have now written ...

Hip to be outside the square

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Scale gives large super funds the resources and the likelihood to outperform, but that doesn't mean small funds that are well run can't compete with the mega fund powerhouses. While research has shown that large funds are more likely to out-perform ...