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LGS launches shareholder voting website

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Local Government Super is reported to be the first super fund in Australia disclosing its voting intentions in advance of investee company shareholder meetings. The super fund's recent move was made in conjunction with the launch of a shareholder voting ...

OneVue announces management, strategy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... partner yet, this is part of a wider goal at the company to reach and understand the Gen X/Y investor. Mckeage argued that a "major shift" was underway in financial services and that some of her contemporaries were "putting their heads in the sand and ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... yet that month of the year when they're supposed to sell and go away. Look around and you won't like what you see because major equity markets around the world have been selling a few days before the 1st of May. It'll be a pain tracking down the number ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... US economic growth and reduced expectations of a local interest rate cut are weighing on the Australian share market. The major banks are feeling the most pain as the market backs away from previous bets that the Reserve Bank of Australia would cut the ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... have to have a lot of money in, problem is, a lot of people agree with us," Neilson said, while acknowledging the country's major changes in "banking, utilities and its huge reserves, which shifting from handouts to an incentives culture." He reminded ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
The share market has opened lower as expectations of a delayed cut in interest rates weigh on the major banks. Firmer commodity prices had boosted some mining stocks, while a stronger Australian dollar had been a negative for some healthcare stocks ...

Advisers Register hits 22k

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... and cancelled 18 licences. It has also accepted enforceable undertakings from six licensees requiring them to undertake major improvements in their compliance procedures and entered into agreements with two licensees requiring them to review the way ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... 0.38 per cent, or 75.63 points, to 20,058.95 as investors struck an optimistic note ahead of a raft of earnings results by major Japanese firms. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index nudged ahead by 4.296 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 5769.652.

That elusive 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... closest closing the S&P/ASX 200 index got to 6,000. Maybe it'll get that extra 17.31 points today. The price of Australia's major commodity export - iron ore - has started rebounding, up 5.5% to US$57.81 per tonne instead of heading down the forecast ...

TAL pays out $1bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Life insurance payouts at TAL increased by 12.3% to $948 million during 2014. In a recent announcement TAL said majority of claims were taken out to help people while still living and that payment in the event of a death now accounts for 47.4% of benefits ...