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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... financial year as dairy commodity prices around the world continue to fall. Virgin Australia was flat at 38.5 cents after chairman Neil Chatfield announced he would step down from his post after seven years in the top job. Australian Dairy Farms had ...

Wilson HTM to split funds management, stockbroking arms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... lead some of the group's other divisions, such as Next Financial, Priority Funds and Group Overhead/Treasury. Wilson HTM chairman Steven Skala said: "we consider that firms of our group's scale and nimbleness are best left operated as independent houses ...

Spring FG to pursue more acquisitions

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... funds (SMSFs) under administration. The business recently appointed former Macquarie Bank Group director Guy Hedley as chairman.

Active management under threat from smart ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... range of index products being brought to market, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices managing director and index committee chairman David Blitzer. Speaking to Financial Standard at the S&P Dow Jones Indices Annual ETF Masterclass in Melbourne, the index ...

Industry needs unified solution to insurance "failure": ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... program exams. "There was material presented to ASIC around allegations of cheating and irregularities in exams," ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said. Medcraft refused Nationals' Senator John Williams statement that ASIC would have lost the so-called 'Penske ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... is the Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator for September. Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel is slated to speak at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch in Adelaide and the Northern Territory Major ...

Life Insurance and Advice Working Group chair appointed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
Former APRA member John Trowbridge has been appointed independent chairman of the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group established by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Services Council (FSC). The working group will address ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... is expected on Friday. However, ANZ chief executive Mike Smith, Wesfarmers commercial director Ian McLeod and Spotless Chairman Margaret Jackson are scheduled to speak at The Australian and Deutsche Bank's Business Leaders Forum in Melbourne. In Australia ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... industries could lead to a global financial crisis that dwarfs the 2008 crash. Hewson was speaking in his capacity as chairman of the Asset Owners' Disclosure Project, a movement which pressures the 1000 largest global pension funds to disclose their ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... continued despite not one but two Fed officials hinting at a later rather than sooner hike in the fed funds rate. Fed vice chairman Fischer noted slowing growth outside the US could delay the hike (underlining the black and white print we read from the ...