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ANZ launches bank-aligned news site

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
ANZ has launched BlueNotes, a corporate digital publication that includes news, opinion and insights from bank executives. "The publication forms part of a strategy to be a leader in engagement with customers, stakeholders and employees through digital ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... in March versus expectations for a 0.4% gain. Better, February's 0.6% advance was recalibrated to a 1.2% pick up. Central bank policies would continue to be easy. I have turned black and blue convincing some (many? most?) gentle readers that this would ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... industrial production bolstered sentiment while the Federal Reserve's Beige Book on US economic conditions confirmed the central bank's view that recent weakness was largely due to bad winter weather. Data also showed that China's gross domestic product ...

CBA integrates online business banking with MySuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has taken its campaign to become a major player in employer superannuation up a notch, integrating its business banking services and MySuper product on its online banking tool, NetBank. The integration of the two ...

What is the future of transition management?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... departure of these four players over the last two years has left seven remaining providers: Citi, State Street, Deutsche Bank, Russell Investments, Mercer Sentinel, UBS, Goldman Sachs. Market share figures do not exist in this industry. However, Citi ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... on Wednesday, was two cents lower at $5.31. Rio Tinto had dropped 30 cents to $63.05. Among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank was nine cents higher at $76.99, ANZ had lifted seven cents to $33.59, Westpac was up 17 cents to $34.54 and National Australia ...

Trend - up, down or up and down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
And a bounce, bounce here and a bounce, bounce there, everywhere a bounce, bounce. This, Virginia, was what Wall Street did overnight - it was up, then down, the back up again... all in a day's trade. It was up on good first quarter earnings reports ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street despite tech stocks at one point pushing the Nasdaq Composite index down nearly two per cent. At 0805 AEST on Wednesday the June share price index futures contract was up ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
A Canadian finance professor has come up with a way of making lifetime annuities affordable by designing them so they only pay out if the market does badly. According to Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, Toronto, while lifetime and deferred lifetime ...

Accountants beat planners in consumer confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... and found that only 16% believe they have 'high ethics and honesty' standards, up 3% from the previous year. The image of bank managers also improved, with 43% of consumers believing they have high ethics and honesty. Nurses, pharmacists, doctors, High ...