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Financial service execs earn big bucks

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... best paid professionals, according to the Australian Financial Review's latest executive salary report. Unsurprisingly, Big Four bank bosses feature prominently high up the list with ANZ chief Mike Smith taking top spot with a total salary including ...

Yellow Brick Road targets Big Four bank employees

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
Yellow Brick Road is making a bid to poach disheartened staff from the Big Four banks with its latest recruitment drive. The financial services firm is looking for experienced finance industry professionals to fill posts for its new Wealth Agents business ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... banks, says Clime Asset Management's John Abernathy. In a new report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the big four banks - Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ and NAB - should be forced to hold extra capital to help protect against damage from ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... politicians compromising on plans for tax hikes and spending cuts and a near term exit of Greece from the euro, he said. The big four retail banks were all weaker. ANZ was down 19 cents at $24.26 and National Australia had dropped 24 cents to $23.40 ...

Successful Telstra bond issue to open flood gates for big banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... earnings are well suited to the tricky investment climate and investors are looking for yield generating assets. The big four Aussie banks are obvious candidates for bond issues, as are staples like Woolworths." In the present market investors remain ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... opened lower following weak overseas leads and falls in its two biggest sectors, resources and financials. "Three of the big four banks have now gone ex-dividend so the short term reason to be in them has somewhat gone out and resources are struggling ...

Light-years before Macquarie and YBR bother banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... move has turned heads in the financial services industry as it promises to provide a genuine competitor to Australia's big four banks. Under the deal, Yellow Brick Road will try to undercut the likes of Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ and NAB by as much ...

Big four prepare market for annus horribilis 2013

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
Australia's big four banks have posted combined cash earnings of more than $25 billion, but bank chiefs, analysts and investors alike have focused on concerns about the sustainability of returns in a tough environment. Westpac rounded off the reporting ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... said. "That's the not-so-subtle change that is happening and it is overdue and, I think, it is positive." Australia's big four banks were all in red figures - ANZ was down four cents at $25.58, CBA was off 10 cents at $56.63, NAB had slipped six cents ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... cents. CBA was down $1.755, or 3.0 per cent, at $55.595, after paying a final dividend of $1.97. The remainder of the big four banks were higher. Westpac was up 38 cents to $24.88, National Australia Bank had added 27.5 cents to $24.905 and ANZ was 13 ...