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

Search Results

Showing 7121 - 7130 of 12590 results for "Company"

Business as usual at Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... saw the head of investment consulting and investment management for the Asia Pacific region Stephen Roberts leave the company at the end of 2012. Roberts was made redundant following restructuring that has grouped Australia and New Zealand in with Europe ...

Hunter Hall repositions fund

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... ranked the returns of Australian equities managers. Hunter Hall boss David Deverall said that after he started at the company in August last year, he received feedback that the Australian Value Trust's marketing was confusing, as it was surveyed against ...

Corporate governance boosted by two-strike rule

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
The 'two-strike rule' on remuneration has improved corporate governance by making company directors more accountable to their shareholders, according to AMP Capital. The investment manager has been a long supporter of the rule which was brought in on ...

New head of Insto sales at La Trobe

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... institutional sales experience, and has worked as rated equities analyst within the REIT sector, La Trobe said. Based in the company's Sydney office, Humphris will be tasked with growing La Trobe Financial's institutional business regionally and offshore ...

Mobile payment market primed for innovation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... boost growth and innovation in the mobile payments industry, according to Credit Suisse. Recent forecasts by IT research company Gartner that anticipate the value of the mobile payment transaction market to grow by an average of 42% annually to reach ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... brand Billabong were also weaker, following a 16 per cent surge on Tuesday after news of a second takeover offer for the company. US retailer VF Corporation - which owns The North Face and Timberland outdoor clothing brands - and US-based Altamont Capital ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... are in a trading halt after the troubled retailer received its sixth takeover bid in less than 12 months. The surfwear company will resume trading at 1100 AEDT. National turnover was 170.4 million shares worth $215.1 million, with 276 stocks up, 228 ...

Mirrabooka profits down 9%

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... in the six months to December 31, down from $6.9 million in the same period in the previous year. In a statement, the company said that the fall was caused by a change in the value of its stake in Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund, which was the subject ...

AMP adds hedge fund specialists to alts team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... years at XL Group in New York, London and Sydney reaching the position of managing director. He developed and managed the company's internal hedge fund program. Nguyen has over six years' experience working as a research analyst at EIM Management in ...

MetLife makes senior appointment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... Damien Green to lead its Employee Benefits business in Asia. Green will be based out of Hong Kong and will start with the company in February 2013. He will report to Christopher Townsend, president of Asia for MetLife. "I am extremely pleased that Damien ...