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Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... 'em rates now. The latest round of soft data releases - business conditions, consumer sentiment, job ads, Ford Motors job cuts announcement - certainly give meat to predictions for more job losses down the track. But you have to ask yourself, could these ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... rose, with a G7 countries warning of foreign exchange volatility pushing up the yen, while dealers also digested news of job cuts across the banking, airlines and telecoms sectors. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies rose 0.98 per cent to close ...

Perpetual finds new CFO

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... intimately familiar with its various initiatives will be beneficial," he said. The Transformation 2015 program saw wide spread job cuts and board pay cuts, and hopes to make the company's corporate structure simpler. Larkins joined Perpetual in October ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... Madrid's IBEX 35 index soared by 1.74 per cent to 7,973.70 points, rebounding from losses the previous day following heavy job cuts at Spanish nationalised lender Bankia. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies jumped 1.15 per cent to 5,870.3 points. ...

New head of wealth advice at Perpetual

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... Perpetual chief executive. Transformation 2015 is a restructuring exercise announced in June this year which saw wide scale job cuts. "Throughout 2012, the Perpetual Private team, under the guidance of Nick, has continued to pursue a number of initiatives ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... and the euro rebounded on Tuesday as investors cheered positive company earnings and reacted to news of thousands of job cuts at Swiss bank UBS. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies closed up 0.95 per cent to 5,849.9 points, while in Frankfurt the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... after European stock markets rebounded as investors cheered positive company earnings and reacted to news of thousands of job cuts at Swiss bank UBS, despite a lull in trading caused by the monster US storm Sandy. At 0825 AEDT on Wednesday, the December ...

Job cuts at PIS

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Professional Investment Services has announced structural changes that will see management roles cut. Chief executive Peter Walther in a statement said that while the changes were not motivated by cost cutting, nor were they based on performance of ...

Redundancies tipped at Plan B

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
Job cuts are predicted at Perth-based boutique wealth manager Plan B, if IOOF's proposed bid is successful. The Plan B board has unanimously recommended that shareholders accept the IOOF offer for 60 cents per ordinary share, in an off-market takeover ...

Deutsche Bank job cuts

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... that Deutsche Bank would consider cutting up to 1000 positions in its investment bank after declines in revenue. The job cuts would be made mostly out of Germany, reported Bloomberg. In October Deutsche Bank announced that it would cut 500 jobs in the ...