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Myer Family Investments names new chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
Myer Family Investments (MFI) appointed a new chief executive and one other board member. McAleese Group chief financial officer John Russell will join as MFI chief executive in November. In a statement MFI said it is delighted to welcome Russell to ...

Future Generation donates $4.71m to charity

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... Brain and Mind Centre, Butterfly Foundation for Eating Disorders, ReachOut Australia, Act for Kids, Australian Children's Music Foundation, Mirabel Foundation and Youth Off The Streets. This is part of FGG's new mandate to donate $2.42 million annually ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... the December medians." Yes Virginia, those virtual 50 basis point cut in the fed funds rate this year and the next became music to financial market ears. The fear of a hard landing in China's economy also now appears to be only that... fear. Chinese ...

Melbourne and Perth to receive a $25m arts education initiative

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... Initiative. In its first year, the National Philanthropic Fund provided significant support to over 80 programs in art, music and sport. As well as promoting creativity most of these programs are education focused, using art as the vehicle to engage ...

Nikko AM grows distribution team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Nikko Asset Management has grown its distribution team and hired two regional sales managers for New South Wales and Queensland. Lia Gunawan joins from the Australian Red Cross, where she was national business partnerships manager. She has also held ...

Financial services most at risk from disruption

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... much time. Evidence of the emergence of digital disruption suggests that the countdown is already upon us." Pointing to the music, book, film and newspaper industries; where revenues have fallen 35% amidst a 46% market shift to digital; Duncombe exposed ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... Although trained as a journalist and professional writer, she wasn't interested in that career and moved into fashion and music. "It was terrific. It was great fun and very dynamic but it wasn't particularly intellectually stimulating," Wade says. By ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday..." -- Spiral Staircase But would it be "...as much as tomorrow"? That's the musical version of "is this a dead cat bounce?" Yes Virginia, I refer to the Shanghai Composite Index which tumbled 5.9% one-day and ...

Fund manager fees too high: David Neal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... issue for the investor of course is that if you think these long-term returns are not normal, then once the central bank music stops, you might expect that markets will reprice to restore more normal levels of return. This repricing would be painful ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... raise interest rates in September, perhaps as early as July." Apple fell 0.7 per cent after announcing the launch of Apple Music, a new subscription service allowing users to stream songs, listen to playlists and connect with performers. EBay fell 3.8 ...