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BTIM appoints Investa chair to board

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... Fuels, The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society and Commonwealth Insurance. She has held senior roles with the Commonwealth Bank, Allen Allen & Hemsley, IBM and the Lend Lease Group. Page was also a partner at KPMG Peat Marwick/Touche Ross. She will ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

ISA attacks financial 'short-termism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
A tendency to take a short-term approach to investment is leading to a "destruction of fundamental value" and declining levels of investment to GDP outside the mining sector, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA). In its submission to the Financial ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... serious resistance around that level previously, so we're looking for a catalyst." Among the major banks, National Australia Bank had fallen 12 cents to $35.25, Westpac was down 13.5 cents at $34.335, Commonwealth Bank had lost 35 cents to $76.68 and ...

Banks eye Google Glass as tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Westpac is developing a Google Glass application that will allow users to access bank accounts, make fund transfers or locate nearby ATM machines. The bank announced this week that it is currently developing an application for Google Glass, which is ...

Legg Mason hires sales director from JPM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... the appointment of sales directors Nathan Masalski from AllianceBerstein in 2012 and Ben van Den Tol from ING Commercial Bank in 2013. The growth in the Australian sales team is part of a continued strategy to build momentum more broadly, and may potentially ...

Folkestone acquires Maxim property boutique

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Australian listed real estate securities and the Maxim Income Fund which provides finance at the senior-subordinated level to non-bank commercial real estate lending platforms. "Maxim, with its real estate securities fund and high yield real estate debt ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Think it's safe to say that these two economists (or four, in case they aren't the same two) expected the European Central Bank (ECB) to announce that it's 24-member Governing Council has decided to ease monetary policy in the region this day. It doesn't ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... financial crisis started in 2008. Milan soared by 1.38 per cent and Madrid by 1.42 per cent. As expected, the European Central Bank kept its gunpowder dry again, holding its key "refi" interest rate at an all-time low of 0.25 per cent for the fifth month ...

Incoming NAB CEO to look at "legacy issues"

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Incoming National Australian Bank (NAB) chief executiveA and managing director Andrew Thorburn said that he will retain a core focus on the Australian and New Zealand franchises and will address the bank's ongoing legacy issues when he takes the reins ...