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Majority of Australians remain wary of technology

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... group so as to demonstrate the value and use technology can bring to their lives," Roy Morgan Research Industry Communications director Norman Morris said. The study focused on how financial institutions can cater to the different segments and notes ...

Law must change on corporate actions automation: DST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... of the last highly manual operational areas," he said. "There's still a huge reliance on paper - faxes, manual communications and processing, both here and globally. While he said that, while the industry has done "quite a bit of work", there will need ...

Fund managers rethink distribution approach after FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... different approach and appointed Andrew Landman as head of Distribution and Clients in March to "ensure that the communications are open between the two teams," BlackRock managing director Mark Oliver said. "The way we approach clients post-GFC and post-FoFA ...

EQT defends sending pre-filled proxy forms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). "Equity Trustees has sent The Trust company shareholders communications, including pre-filled proxy forms," Perpetual said. TRU shareholders will vote on the Perpetual proposal to acquire the ...

Standard Life Inv appoints investment director

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Life Investments from JANA Investment Advisers, where he was responsible for business development, marketing and communications functions for almost seven years. Previously, he held analyst positions with IWL Limited and Coca Cola Amatil. He has more ...

Super funds 'fair game' for activist scrutiny

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... result of the increasing of portfolio disclosure requirements, according to Peter Lewis, director of Essential Media Communications (EMC). Under current plans, within the next year funds will by law have to publicly disclose every single company in which ...

Advisers coming round to social media

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... the industry through their enthusiasm and understanding of social media as an effective business development and communications tool," Kewin said. "Of those advisers who are connected to their BDM via social media, 59.9% interact on business issues only ...

Leading fund manager demands reporting rule change

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... ASIC is already aware of the potential for conflict and abuse under the current system and is now investigating communications between companies and analysts in a bid the "police" the current system of covert briefings. However, the fund manager has ...

SIFMA talks up Wall Street cyber defences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... decision to close the market. But the widespread nature of the attack reinforced the need for continual improvement in communications between securities exchanges, market participants and government regulators. "While the exercise yielded many positive ...

ASIC acted only when claims hit "tsunami level"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... Lampe, who is a Walkley award winning investigative finance journalist and writer who was employed by ASIC as an communications adviser in the regulator's media unit, gave an insight on how ASIC deals with consumer complaints. Lampe said that ASIC would ...