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WA planning firm wins Telstra award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
WA-based financial planning group Addwealth has won the Telstra Business Award for Social Responsibility in Western Australia. The firm will represent WA in the national awards next month. According to the firm, it was the only financial services company ...

MacarthurCook CEO resigns

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Craig Dunstan, founder and managing director of MacarthurCook, has resigned following the firm's acquisition by AIMS Securities Holdings. Dunstan resigned yesterday, and sold all of his shares not subject to escrow to AIMS under the bid. Dunstan founded ...

Insurance and finance cos hedge against risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
More than 30 per cent of insurance and finance companies are looking to boost their information technology systems to better manage risk, notes a new KPMG survey. Out of 315 respondents across the globe, 35 per cent say they would invest in information ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

The best of the best in financial services marketing, sales and business development battled it out in this year's Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards, with the winners announced last night at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney. This year's event gave ...

Net tightens on executive pay

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Goodbye golden parachutes - APRA has released a consultation package encouraging financial services firms to set up stricter guidelines when deciding executive remuneration. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is recommending its regulated ...

SimCorp to award excellence in risk management

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009

ASF names former S&P head as CEO

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... already been a strong contributor in past ASF initiatives and was recognised for his efforts with the ASF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. "A functioning securitisation market is vital to credit creation in Australia and so in turn is vital for the ...

Best of the best at Securitor

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... Compliance Rating and managed to grow his financial planning business revenue by over 20 per cent last year - a strong achievement following the onslaught of the market downturn. He has a holistic offering combining risk, investment, debt and financial ...

GFC Problem solved

... financial institutions and credit-raters and limits to executive renumeration, among others. In highlighting their achievement, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared that, 'This is the day the world came together to fight back against the global recession ...

AIG Australia weathering US storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... premiums compared to 50 per cent 12 months ago. But increasing sales when even just holding ground would have been an achievement highlights, according to Green, the importance of detailed one-on-one communications when there is a crisis in confidence. ...