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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... shake up the chemicals giant by activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management. Shareholders rejected all four Trian board nominees, including Peltz. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have closed mixed, despite news of solid first quarter ...

Cbus faces serious industry problems with super payments

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... any financial loss. "The review has examined overall governance structures at Cbus with the reviewers observing that the board could benefit from a further injection of independent directors," Bracks said. "The board has established a sub-committee to ...

BAM appoints non-executive chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
Global equities manager Bell Asset Management has appointed a new non-executive chair to its board. Christine Feldmanis was most recently managing director at Treasury Group Investment Services, and was CFO and senior client services manager at NSW ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... worked was unchanged at 34.5 hours. Good news for us, Australians all. RBA Gov Glenn must thanking his mom that this month's Board meeting is followed by the publication of the quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy, enabling him to put back what he ...

NAB appoints new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... will succeed Michael Chaney AO, who will retire at the bank's annual general meeting in December. Henry has been on NAB's board since November 2011. Previously he was Secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury and sat on the RBA board. He has also held (or ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... have gone away. This as much was what Chicago Fed pres Charles Evans told his audience at the Columbus Economic Development Board Annual Meeting in Columbus, IN, on 4 May: "In my view, it likely will not be appropriate to begin raising the federal funds ...

Robo advice questions still unanswered

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... that the advice profession is very well established here in Australia. "IOSCO - of which the Financial Planning Standards Board [and ASIC] is an affiliate member - recently analysed the impact of automatic financial advice and the regulatory challenges," ...

Senior female execs needed: BlackRock

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... executive positions is still scarce, BlackRock's recently published gender diversity report said. "The aim of filling 30% of board positions with women is achievable, at least for larger companies during 2017," BlackRock head of corporate governance ...

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... labour market and strong - very strong - housing approvals are the latest domestic economic stats the men and women of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would have seen before they commence their deliberation on monetary policy this morning. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... stocks gained some ground following the first rise in US factory orders in eight months. Locally, the Reserve Bank has its board meeting and is widely expected to announces an interest rate cut. Before that, the Australian Industry Group releases its ...