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

Search Results

Showing 6611 - 6620 of 17960 results for "Bank"

ASX senior manager goes to Citi for wealth head role

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
Citi has appointed a new head of banking wealth management product. Marcus Christoe joins Citi from the ASX, where he was senior manager, funds and investment products. Prior to that, he was head of equity structured products at RBS and head of equities ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... markets and the outlook for US interest rates are likely to take some pressure off the Australian dollar allowing the Reserve Bank to be patient." Australia wage price index The bad news - the annual growth rate in Australian wages remained at its slowest ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... past five years has been 7.75%. Grow says the return of quantitative easing in the UK in the wake of the Brexit vote and the Bank of Japan's review of its own monetary policy mean a case can be made for bond prices rising further still. "The bull case ...

Suncorp boss in hot water over climate change

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... criticism over his stance on climate change in light of the company's 2016 annual review. The annual review insisted that the bank and insurer "works with all levels of government and key stakeholders to help communities adapt to the impacts of climate ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... Brexit-induced drop to minus 14.7 (a four-year low) in the previous month and beating market expectations for a minus 6.3 print. The Bank of England's (BOE) policy easing in August and the European Central Bank's (ECB) promise to act if necessary helped ...

VicSuper hires distribution executive manager

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... Parisotto will step into the newly created role. He joins VicSuper from the financial services arm of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and prior to this he held the role of head of adviser sales at IOOF. In the role Parisotto will be responsible for driving ...

AMP Capital opts to liquidate AGF portfolio

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... proceeds distributed accordingly; or sell down the entire portfolio "as soon as practicable," hold it in cash in a Chinese bank and distribute to unitholders once tax and regulatory approvals are received. Ultimately, AMP Capital went with the second ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... Japanese GDP Disappointing Japanese economic growth figures have all but cemented expectations for more policy easing from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) come September. Preliminary estimates showed that real GDP produced no growth in the three months to June. ...

CBA EGM becomes customer advocate chief

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
Commonwealth Bank executive general manager customer advocacy and remediation, Dr Brendan French, will head the bank's customer advocate arm. CBA said the role and customer advocacy function will strengthen the firm's accountability for fair customer ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... game in town because "the returns in cash and bonds are pretty dismal". Let me add moral hazard to this. Years of central bank salvation from nasty corrections have conditioned investors to expect a rescue should prices drop.