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

Search Results

Showing 961 - 970 of 1074 results for "40:40 Vision"

Global investors push for corruption info

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
A coalition of international fund managers, pension funds and super funds representing more than $1.7 trillion have written to 21 major companies urging them to improve their disclosure of bribery and corruption risks. The investors asked companies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
The Australian market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with most major markets comfortably higher, including oil and precious and base metals. At 0700 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index ...

Equipsuper to merge with Vision Super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... will focus their efforts on putting their investments into a combined super trust, called Pooled Super Pty Ltd (PSPL). Vision Super chief executive, Rob Brooks, will lead PSPL, while Michael Strachan, chief investment officer of Equipsuper, will be appointed ...

Centric enhances direct equities services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Centric Wealth is building on its direct equities and individually managed account (IMA) capability following demand from its high net worth clients. John McMurdo, chief executive at Centric Wealth, said the planning group's high net worth clients are ...

Can an outsider transform ipac financial planning?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
Can a top travel executive help lead a $5.5 billion financial planning business? That's the question advisers asked when financial planning group ipac appointed former American Express executive, Libby Roy, as the new head of its advice arm. Roy will ...

Cbus Connect merger heralds investment changes

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
Cbus is in merger talks with electricity fund CONNECT - a move that could see changes in overlapping mandates and a face off between each fund's asset consultant, Frontier Investments and JANA. Cbus, the industry fund for the construction, building ...

Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Eight super funds, including AustralianSuper, are spearheading the move to better assess climate change risks on long-term returns, but the industry, as a whole, is still moving at a glacial pace on all thing carbon, a survey shows. The joint survey ...

AMP appoints key insurance personnel

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
AMP Financial Services has appointed Marcello Bertasso as head of underwriting and Warren Page as chief underwriter in its Personal Wealth Protection team. Bertasso joins Personal Wealth Protection from CommInsure. Before this, Bertasso resided in South ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
If you believe the mantra that any economic recovery would not be sustainable without employment growth, then there is now no doubt that Australia has one sustainable economic expansion going. The latest Labour Force, Australia released by the Australian ...

Citigroup Wealth Advisers broker banned

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
ASIC has banned Melbourne broker Mark McKenzie, previously employed by Citigroup Wealth Advisers, from providing financial services for three years. ASIC found that between 26 July and 8 August 2006, he possessed inside information regarding a possible ...