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

Search Results

Showing 8631 - 8640 of 18276 results for "Plan"

NAB prepares contingency plan if Scots vote 'Yes'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... a 'yes' vote, registration of Clydesdale Bank in England "would provide greater clarity going forward." "This contingency plan gives our Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank customers increased certainty about the ongoing success and stability of the bank. ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
"Problems, problems, problems all day long Will my problems work out right or wrong?... Worries, worries pile up on my head Woe is me, I should have stayed in bed..." -- Everly Brothers A confluence of worries - old and new -- concerned Wall Street ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... (0.36 per cent) at 4,575.21. The US and European Union unveiled new sanctions on Russian banking and energy companies, a plan that was immediately attacked by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Solid reports on Friday on US retail sales and consumer confidence ...

AMP finds head of research following key departures

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
AMP has appointed a head of research and is starting to rebuild the team after the departures of several key executives. Standard & Poor's former fund services director and head of research Leanne Milton has joined AMP this week as head of research. ...

Perpetual set to launch ASX-listed fund

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
Perpetual has announced that it is planning to launch a listed investment company (LIC) later this year called Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited. The LIC will initially offer shares with an entitlement to add a further share for every share ...

AMP Horizons launches online masters with Griffith University

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
AMP's financial planning academy Horizons will launch an online masters program with Griffith University, starting from November 2014. The program combines academic training and practical experience and offers candidates a pathway to gain a university ...

Forget about national advice exam, focus on training: CPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
A national examination for financial advisers would fail to address the current deficiencies and, instead, CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants ANZ say the focus should be on adviser training and establishing a comprehensive curriculum. A single ...

Advisers ask for segmented education standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Financial advisers have asked that the minimum education standards are not set up following a 'one size fits all' approach, but instead take into account individual advisers' areas of focus. As part of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Female ...

Call for entries to the 2014 Smileys Social Media Scholarship program

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014

Why are bonds no longer a safe haven?

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The reputation of bonds as being a safe haven is being challenged by a surge in global financial market re-regulation, according to UBS head of investment strategy Tracey McNaughton. At a media briefing in Sydney yesterday McNaughton said that the repeal ...