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Males dominate ASX200 top job

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
The chiefs of Australia's largest blue-chip companies are typically highly educated males based in Sydney and boast international work experience, a Robert Half analysis shows. Only 12 out of the top 200 ASX-listed companies were led by women. One-third ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
It's beginning to look a lot like the Grinch will steal Christmas 2017 and investors would be happy just to get the two-front teeth in their hanged stockings. That's the feeling many an investor would get upon the reading the nasty news, exemplified ...

For Stanford Brown, life begins at 30

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Sydney-based financial planning group Stanford Brown doesn't do things by halves. On the eve of its 30th anniversary, it announced a string of initiatives that sets it apart from traditional advice businesses. Last month Stanford Brown marked its 30 ...

LaSalle appoints local client executive

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... positions at Lazard and BKK Partners. In her new role, Mustac will report to global co-heads of LaSalle's client capital group Jon Zehner and Alok Gaur. Zehnher said: "We are delighted to welcome Anita to our team at a time when we are strengthening ...

FPA reveals annual award finalists

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
The Financial Planning Association of Australia received a record number of entries for the 2017 FPA Awards ahead of its Professionals Congress in Hobart next month. Announcing the award finalists, FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said he was impressed ...

NAB launches customer chatbot app

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
NAB is ramping up its virtual assistance technology with the launch of a new customer banking voice-based app. Customers owning a smartphone with Google Assistant or a Google Home device can use the Talk to NAB app to ask general banking questions such ...

Cromwell divests IOF, reopens fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
ASX-listed Cromwell Property Group will sell its entire stake in an office fund and reopen another fund to investors for $30 million in additional funding. Cromwell will sell down its 9.89% stake in the Investa Office Fund (IOF) to Investa Property ...

SPIVA again scores active versus passive debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
The widely-used SPIVA scorecard, prepared semi-annually by S&P Dow Jones Indices, once again suggests the majority of Australian active managers underperformed their respective benchmarks over the 12 months to 30 June 2017. Describing itself as the ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
Oh drat! There were few events last week to provide a nice entry point to equity markets, ones that could instil caution, if not fear, enough for some to trim their holdings and cheapen share prices. But alas! Most share markets closed stronger. These ...

Munro appoints new portfolio manager

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
Munro Partners, a global absolute return equity specialist, appointed a former London-based senior investment manager to the newly created role of portfolio manager. Jeremy Gibson will be responsible for championing stock ideas and managing positions ...