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

Search Results

Showing 61 - 70 of 154 results for "CUP"

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... number of centenarians is growing so fast that the Japan Times news service recently reported they no longer receive a silver cup from the government when they make it to their 100th birthday due to the spiraling cost of such a program. In Australia ...

FIIG appoints former Wallaby to senior QLD role

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... Lawyers. Connors also played for the Wallabies from 1999 to 2000, having partaken in Australia's victory in the 1999 Rugby World Cup. He has also played 134 games for the Queensland Reds and is currently the team's most capped player ever. At FIIG, Connors ...

Standard Life Investments sponsors 2017 Lions tour

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... and build our brand around the world." Standard Life Investments, is also the first and only worldwide partner of the Ryder Cup. The latest tie-up follows NAB's recent appointment of former All Black Andrew Mehrtens as associate director of business ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
The nation stops today - Melbourne Cup Day and RBA decision day. I don't know which bet's an easier pick, choosing the winning horse where there are equines a-plenty to bet on or the RBA's decision on interest rates where it's practically a coin-flip. ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is lucky. By the time Gov Glenn and his Board meets on Tuesday next week (3 November Melbourne Cup Day), the RBA would have the whole hog on what its bigger peers have done and/or are thinking.

Industry fund sponsors Oprah tour

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... to Sydney's Shute Shield rugby union competition for the next three years - on top of its sponsorship for the Intrust Super Cup rugby league competition in Queensland.

Former Wallaby Kearns resurfaces at insurance broker

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... prospects. I'm looking forward to working with the excellent team that Dennis has already assembled." Kearns, who was part of world cup winning teams in 1991 and 1999, will join InterRISK as managing director on 20 April 2015.

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... 2014 (4 days before my 52nd birthday), "Securing the recovery is like making it through the qualifying rounds of the World Cup. That is an achievement, not the ultimate goal. The real tournament is just beginning and its prize is a strong, sustained ...

Countplus appoints CEO, rejigs board

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... acquisition," chairman Barry Lambert said. "However, the directors are strongly of the view that in the longer term this will be in CUP's best interest." The direct equity plan will allow key Countplus team members and directors to acquire an equity ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Russia's very own central bank have done it for him days before Vlad left for China. On 5 November - a day after the Melbourne Cup and one day before the ECB policy decision - the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced the end of its currency intervention ...