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Challenger negotiates Care Annuity compromise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
... Challenger suspended sales of the product on 28 November and undertook to pursue legal avenues against the government. The company instigated Federal Court proceedings while continuing to maintain an open dialogue with the DSS. "Over the last few weeks ...

IRESS appoints board director

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014
... chief executive officer. Tomlinson also led the first demutualisation and ASX listing of an Australian life insurance company. He has been a non-executive director of National Australia Bank (NAB) from March 2000 to December 2014, including chairman ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... market it represents to a record high of 19%, Rainmaker data shows. A market more at the whims of central bankers than company fundamentals has made things tough for stocks-pickers in recent years, and now the numbers are coming through to prove it. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... Chevron skidded nearly 3.0 per cent and 2.0 per cent, respectively. Occidental Petroleum fell 3.0 per cent and oil services company Weatherford International plummeted 7.0 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets mostly retreated, pushed lower as oil ...

Macquarie executive tops industry salary survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
Macquarie Group chief executive Nicholas Moore has topped the list of highest paid listed financial services company executive. According to figures compiled by the Australian Financial Review, Moore received a total of $13.1 million in 2014, up 48% ...

BTFG restructures investment business

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... Advance Asset Management, Westpac Online Investing and BT's own in-house advice model portfolio construction team - eQR. The company's boutique investment business Ascalon will continue to operate alongside BT Investment Solutions while the existing ...

Life company profits flat

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... Swiss Re Life (-$137 million), along with reinsurers Reinsurance Group of America (-$71 million) and Munich Reinsurance Company (-$56 million).

Hastings partners with Japanese bank

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... recent signing of a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Hong Kong-headquartered China Merchants Investment Development Company Limited (CMID) in Canberra earlier this month, as well as partnerships in Korea and India.

NZ Super Fund takes big stake in LanzaTech

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSF) has taken a 17% stake in gas-to-liquid company LanzaTech. The stake, purchased for invested $US60 million ($A64.92 million) values the company at about $US400 million and makes the super fund the second-biggest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... Funtastic and Washington H Soul Pattinson have their annual general meetings. Origin chief executive Grant King will provide a company update and discuss the energy sector at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia event in Sydney. In Australia ...