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Boardrooms lack female directors: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
More than half of the country's ASX200 listed companies don't have a female board director - prompting one gender advocacy group to release a name-and-shame report on the gender imbalance that continues to prevail in the financial services sector. Women ...

AFS appoints Elixir Consulting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
Australian Financial Services Group has engaged practice development firm Elixir Consulting to boost its Board of Advice program. Peter Daly, group chief executive and managing director of AFS Group, said the BoA program aims to help principals to clarify ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... official interests rates for the third consecutive month. The RBA will announced its decision at 1430 AEDT after its December board meeting. A third consecutive rise would be unprecedented. At 1201 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 6.2 points ...

Walter Scott announces investment successors

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... management group. This management reshuffle is part of McFarlane's and the firm's long-term succession plan. "Alan and the board have put a lot of thought into this decision and have spent considerable time ensuring the right people are in the leadership ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... is out! Worry no more about Dubai. There are bigger fish to fry. The Financial Times reports that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) - the regulator advocated by US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner last June to pre-empt and prevent the spread of systemic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... December share price index contract was 11 points higher at 4,706. In economic news on Tuesday, the RBA holds its December board meeting, releasing its decision on interest rates at 1430 AEDT. The Australian Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers release ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... Superannuation and Benefits Scheme (MSBS) and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme (DFRDB) to form a single trustee board on July 2010. ComSuper's current commissioner for superannuation is Leo Bator, the former deputy commissioner ...

Africa's PIC appoints Charles River

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... behalf of public sector clients - based on investment mandates set by each client and approved by the Financial Services Board (FSB)," said Leon Smit, general manager of fixed income and dealing, PIC. "Our portfolio managers and traders now know they ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... confidence was dampened by a weak reading on consumer confidence and a report showing slower economic growth. The Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence Index rose to 49.5 in November from a revised reading of 48.7 in October. While better than ...

Planners brace for fiduciary revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... programs and that adviser education standards be raised and monitored through the establishment of a professional standards board. The Report in this regard was highly critical of the regulator for not being pro-active enough. "The committee is firmly ...