Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 601 - 610 of 1693 results for "Industries"

Banks face imminent disruption

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... Nikko AM ARK Global Disruptive Innovation Fund - a thematic fund focussed on companies that are disrupting traditional industries.

Manager vacancy at $50m fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... during a period that end 12 months from the initial investment date. The fund will look at eligible companies across all industries except life science and biotech companies (unless they have demonstrated phase one clinical trial results), or if their ...

MetLife appoints head of CX

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... caring. She has 20 years' experience across customer experience and operations in the financial services and telco industries, having previously consulted to players in financial services such as Macquarie and Allianz. She has also worked for CommInsure ...

APRA hits Allianz over risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... implement its planned remediation work. We also want to send a message to the broader insurance and superannuation industries that APRA expects the same high standards of risk management, including for non-financial risks, as we do for the banks." APRA ...

NEOS Life partners with insurance tech firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... locations globally, Ebix provides software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial, e-learning and healthcare industries. It aims also to provide software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions in CRMs, front-end and back-end systems, outsourced administration ...

Industry not impressed with APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... Research, takes into account the positions of 280 regulated entities across the banking, insurance and superannuation industries, and 70 knowledgeable observers, including auditors, actuaries and industry associations. Despite the 2019 results broadly ...

Financial services boom rolls on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... average age for all employees of 39.8 years old. The sector is more likely to provide full-time employment than other industries. "The sector produces $161 billion of value per year, or 9% of our almost $2 trillion economy. This equates to $6400 of economic ...

Women don't know their worth: Noble Oak

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... (1965-1980) and Baby Boomers (1946-1964) overvalue themselves by $102,000 and $174,000 respectively. By occupation, the industries most likely to have low self-esteem when it comes to their life insurance value were rental hiring and real estate services. ...

Suncorp pressured on coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... impacts of the climate crisis, while at the same time their company is willing to support the expansion of the dirty industries fuelling this crisis." Brait told Financial Standard that Market Forces has been unable to confirm the exact nature of Suncorp's ...

AMP Capital revamps ethical super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... Leaders portfolio manager Kristen Le Mesurier explained the update reflects the fact that more investors care about which industries they are supporting with their money and the impact these investments have on the world. "The change to Ethical Leaders ...