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Win entry to the MAX awards

... services they predict will be a hit with their clients. 2) Advertising Review - we invite a financial adviser, a creative agency and a brand and media strategist to discuss who's produced the most effective advertising in 2014. 3) - how do the digital ...

OMFG! Australia could lose an A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
We're in trouble now Virginia... you, I and Irene! That credit ratings agency - Standard & Poor's has waded in into the Federal Budget and put us, Australians all, on notice. Just read S&P's sovereign analyst Craig Michael's lips: "If it looked as though ...

Voting opens for the 2014 MAX Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... the rebrand, there are new categories including Best Social Media Campaign, Best Integrated Campaign of the Year, Best Agency, Best Digital Marketing Campaign and Sales and Marketing Executive of the Year. Other awards to be handed out are Marketer of ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... Australia's borders, immigration and customs operational responsibilities will be consolidated into a single border control agency, the Australian Border Force. Everything I have announced tonight helps to build a stronger Budget and a stronger economy. ...

Court rules against S&P in Lehmann Brothers class action

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
A Federal Court judgement against ratings agency Standard & Poor's has cleared the way for Councils, church groups and charities to continue a damage claim relating to Lehman Brothers complex products. Church groups, charities and 91 Councils in Australia ...

Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... against rising rates and inflation. They plan to decrease allocations to cash, short-term instruments, and government and agency debt, for which they have the lowest near-term return expectations. More than 20% of the CIOs surveyed indicated that deflation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... $37.70 and Fortescue Metals gained eight cents at $5.36. Coca-Cola Amatil had gained eight cents at $9.14 despite ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgrading the beverages supplier's credit rating in the wake of a slide in earnings. Other consumer ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... firms, including a method where a firm places a large order for trades in a company's stock but then cancels them. The agency is also looking into whether trading firms were granted information ahead of institutional investors. New York State Attorney ...

Bridges CEO leaves after implementing IOOF model

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... Financial has already started the search for a new chief executive and its parent company, IOOF, has engaged an external agency to assist in the search. An IOOF spokesperson told Financial Standard that Bridges Financial had run as an independent business ...

CareSuper reshuffles board, appoints first female chair

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... 2012 and has previously been chief executive and director of AGEST Super, and chief executive of the government training agency TUTA. She is the current President of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and the national chair of ...