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

Search Results

Showing 871 - 880 of 934 results for Company release

OTC derivative platforms need upgrade: report

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Institutions trading over the counter (OTC) derivatives must invest a significant amount in technology, infrastructure and human resources to support rising trading volumes, according to a new report. Neil Wright, State Street senior vice president ...

Perpetual appoints joint quant head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Perpetual appointed Ganesh Suntharam as joint head of firm's quantitative investments business. This announcement follows the appointment of Vasant Khilnani as Suntharam's co-head of quantitative investments. Both Suntharam and Khilnani were promoted ...

Three firms wound up by ASIC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... records. They also operated unregistered managed investments schemes. Meanwhile, the application to wind up an additional company in the group, 115 Constitution Road Pty Ltd, was adjourned for 14 days following the appointment of an administrator to ...

HSBC Premier business up 76 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
HSBC Australia's personal financial services business grew its local customer base by more than 76 per cent in the past 12 months, but pre-tax profits were down compared to the previous year. The local arm saw pre-tax year-on-year profit up 42 per cent ...

Mercer expands property and Aust eq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
Mercer has announced three new appointments to their Australian equities and real research departments. Clare Armstrong has been appointed to the role of senior Australian equities researcher, following 10 years at Goldman Sachs JB Were as head of managed ...

MLC revamps global share strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... with four new fund managers. Mondrian Investment Partners, Harding Loevner, Sands Capital Management and Tweedy, Browne Company were appointed to the firm's global share strategy portfolio. These fund managers have discretion over choice of capital allocation ...

NAB deploys Telstra tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
National Australia Bank is improving its telephone banking with a new speech recognition product from Telstra and VeCommerce. The new service is designed to improve NAB's telephone banking experience, as customer enquiries are directed to the most appropriately ...

AUI opens unlisted property fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) is converting five of the firm's existing retail property syndicates and trusts into a single open-ended unlisted property fund. The Retail Property Trust was developed after investors approved the conversion of the ...

Mercer adds to outsourcing team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Mercer continues to add more resources to the firm's $34 billion outsourcing sales business, hiring James Panaretos as outsourcing sales manager, corporate superannuation. Panaretos previously worked at Mariner Financial, Russell Investments and BT ...

SMSFs get web upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... stocks and get a full listing of all client portfolio holdings, said John McIlroy, Multiport's chief executive. The web release also gives advisers fee reports and client contact listing. The next web upgrade, to be released this month, will contain ...