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Equity Trustees flags acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... provider of independent trustee services" in the New Year. As part of this, the company recently hired Grant Currie from Rio Tinto's superannuation fund as head of superannuation trustee services. EQT currently services 13 superannuation funds with assets ...

EQT appoints Rio Tinto super exec

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
Equity Trustees has appointed a new head of trustee services. Grant Currie joins EQT from Rio Tinto's superannuation fund, where he was principal risk and compliance officer. He joined Rio Tinto in 2012, and was also secretary to the fund's audit, risk ...

Global dividends down 4pc

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... underlying basis Australian payouts declined 10.2% following BHP Billiton's decision to cut Q3 payout by over $2bn and Rio Tinto's decision to follow suit. Financials are Australia's largest dividend paying sector and account for three fifths of annual ...

Crestone signs former Rio Tinto CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... governance experience as a board director in industry, resources and banking. Between 2000 and 2007 he was chief executive at Rio Tinto. He is currently chair of Qantas Airways, chair of Bechtel Australia and a director of Bechtel Group, and is involved ...

VanEck resources ETF upgraded by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... a maximum weighting of 8% to individual stocks removing the large capitalisation biases to companies such as BHP and Rio Tinto which dominate traditional market capitalisation indices. Lonsec confirmed MVR's "underlying index differs from the more widely ...

AUI reports 11.7% profit slide

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... The company's report attributed this to "a reduction in income from investments." Specifically, it identified BHP and Rio Tinto's decision to "abandon their long-standing progressive dividend policies in the face of a substantial cyclical downturn in ...

MLC extends Rio Tinto insurance partnership

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
Members in the accumulation division of the Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund (RTSSF) were recently moved to new insurance arrangements following MLC winning a market tender. The accumulation division was previously under self-insurance arrangements ...

Executive reshuffle at KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... general manager for customer services at Service Stream. He has also held various executive IT roles at ANZ Bank, Telstra, Rio Tinto and Sensis. Craig is an advisory board member of the CIO Executive Council Australia/New Zealand. Chief financial officer ...

Australia tanks in global dividend index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... year, but it gave a foretaste of what is to come. With Australian oil companies slashing their payments deeply, and Rio Tinto later this year joining BHP Billiton with cuts of its own, together these companies will knock US$5.5 billion ($7.6 billion) ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... manager of the Lazard Select Australian Equity Fund is seeing opportunity is in mega-cap materials stocks BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Falling commodity prices have seen these stocks severely beaten up by the market. But Hofflin says price-to-book ratios ...