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Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... "Effective with the release of The Employment Situation for January 2014 on February 7, 2014, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey will introduce revisions to nonfarm payroll employment, hours, and earnings data to reflect the annual benchmark ...

MySuper: industry not dead if proper action taken

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
Under the Government's MySuper legislation, it is vital for corporate super specialists to engage with their clients and focus on exited members, warns CESSA. Douglas Latto, president at the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CESSA) said that the ...

Lloyd new Perpetual CEO, Ryan steps down

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
Geoff Lloyd has been appointed new chief executive officer and managing director of Perpetual Limited following Chris Ryan's exit over the weekend. Lloyd has overseen the restructure of the organisation's retail distribution arm since joining Perpetual ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... market policies also lead to greed that impoverishes. But heading towards the other extreme is hardly good policy either. Ces't la vie.

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
Investors make some of their investment decisions based on whether they support the political party in power or not, academic research shows. The School of Business finance department from University of Miami released data this month claiming that investors ...

Govt response to exec remuneration falls short: Regnan

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
A specialist corporate governance firm is frustrated the government has not backed a proposal from the Productivity Commission's executive remuneration report that could better align departing executives interests with long-term shareholders. The Productivity ...

Investors influence credit ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Credit rating agencies are bowing to the pressure of investors, issuers, and underwriters to change their ratings, a new survey shows. A recent member opinion poll conducted by the CFA Institute found that 11 per cent of those surveyed witnessed a CRA ...

Unilever switches strategy as FitzGerald goes

Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever switched its focus to boosting shareholder returns on Thursday after failing to meet sales growth targets, lifting its stock, and said Chairman Niall FitzGerald would retire early. Unilever Plc/NV, the food and consumer products ...

Business confidence on upswing: ACCI and Westpac industrial survey

General business confidence is on a high in the wake of the 2003-04 Federal Budget and the Australian economy has continued to perform strongly in the 2003 June quarter, a survey of industrial trends by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

'Bulls' released from their pen:survey shows sentiment turnaround

There has been a huge turnaround in investment sentiment since April 2003, the latest Investment Sentiment Indices released today by the Australian Investors Association and Adviser Ratings has revealed. In the survey, respondents indicated in which ...