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BT hones tech for advice scale

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
BT Financial chief Brad Cooper's strategic focus on cross-selling wealth products to Westpac customers will be helped by a multi-pronged technology-based approach. Mark Spiers, BT's general manager of advice said technology will be a key battleground ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Yeah, yeah& tell that to the marines! This was a saying I picked up in high school when I was doing my compulsory military service. The marines don't believe anything, they don't ask why, they simply do or die. This quip came to mind as I surf cyberspace ...

Childhood determines who rises to the top

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
While workplace discrimination and family demands are commonly blamed for the lack of female chief executives, research has found that it's childhood issues that are more to blame. The research findings were revealed by Dr Terrance Fitzsimmons, post-doctoral ...

Super funds drive M5 infra investment deal

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
Several superannuation funds will help finance the widening of Sydney's M5 motorway through investment in the road's operator Interlink Roads Pty Ltd. Financial Standard understands that the finance will be provided by AMP capital, Industry Funds management ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open more than three quarters of a per cent lower after falls on the US and European markets overnight. At 0840 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 34 points, or 0.83 per cent, at ...

Philanthropy needs simpler support: Perpetual Private

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
Philanthropic giving in the last few years has been undervalued in Australia because of a disproportionate focus on tax structures and increased regulation on charitable vehicles such as private ancillary funds. Andrew Thomas, general manager - philanthropy ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's positive lead and after indications Greek will get a pro-austerity, pro-euro government. At 0745 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was up 25 points at 4,078. ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
Ho-hum. Some may find riding the current stock market see-saw exciting but I'm beginning to get bored. Certainly what we're going through right here, right now is the stuff histories are made of, but there's only so much a man can take - especially ...

Risk needs to shift in line with mission

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
Towers Watson has released research that suggests that the investment industry needs a new approach to risk management to align risk with mission. "It is time to promote better risk management over more measurement and we need to be careful not to mistake ...

Suncorp keeps it simple

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
Suncorp has unveiled a new strategic simplification program that will deliver annualised benefits of $200m from the 2016 financial year. Suncorp's simplification program, which will cost $275m and be expensed from within operating budgets will focus ...