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CBA boss to be grilled on Senate report

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) boss Ian Narev will front the media for the first time since a damning report called for a royal commission to investigate its financial advisers. Narev will face a media conference in Sydney at 1045 AEST on Thursday, a week ...

CBA needs to"lift its game": Treasurer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey said Commonwealth Bank (CBA) needs to "lift its game" and added that the bank has handled the scandals within its financial planning businesses and the Senate investigation "appallingly." Hockey spoke this weekend at the Liberal ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
Countries must dramatically rethink strategies for avoiding and dealing with financial crises, the Bank for International Settlements says, urging far more focus on fighting debt. The Swiss-based BIS -- dubbed the central bankers' central bank -- has ...

CBA names new CIO

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
A Commonwealth Bank (CBA) planning executive has been promoted to the role of group executive, enterprise services and chief information officer, to replace current CIO Michael Harte. David Whiteing joined the CBA in September 2013 to lead the newly ...

Group risk premiums on the up: Rice Warner

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Australia's group life segment has begun increasing premium levels, Recent Rice Warner analysis shows. The research and consulting business for the superannuation industry compared the average premiums for death and TPD cover for the 10 largest industry ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
The Australian share market is set for further falls after another negative session on Wall Street, caused by escalating violence in Iraq that pushed US oil prices to nine month highs. At 0700 AEST on Friday, the March share price index futures contract ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Australia is home to around 195,000 millionaire households, putting the country 14th in the global league tables, just ahead of India. The figure comes from the latest private wealth survey from management consultant, the Boston Consulting Group. Leading ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
"Never underestimate the power of optimism". I've never forgotten this slogan since children cancer charity "Camp Quality" advertised it on Victorian (Australia) television some years back. A click on its website shows that this slogan has now been ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... existing homes sold at an annual rate of 4.65 million in April, up 1.3 per cent from March, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said. April marked the first month sales rose in 2014. Greenhaus said trading volumes were low as some people on Wall ...

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 ...