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Aussie banks battered by pandemic

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... shareholders, this half year cycle has seen a combination of reduced and deferred dividends and issuance of capital as they batten down the hatches for the changing climate ahead." Ultimately, the length and impact of the economic downturn on the banks ...

MetLife Australia wins tech award

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... (ACORD). The 50-year-old organisation sets global data standards for insurers and runs as an industry owned non-profit. Batten wins the award jointly with MetLife Australia's digital product manager Sourav Shah, who also sits on ACORD's Australian ...

Fund manager sells all shares ahead of crash

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
A veteran fund manager is liquidating all unit trust assets and handing back mandates due to a "clear and present danger" in property and equity markets. Altair Asset Management chair and chief investment officer Philip Parker explained he had sold ...

ASIC needs to focus on prevention, not cure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... 80s - volume-based payments, shelf-space fees and so on." The panel, which also included Minter Ellison partner Richard Batten, unanimously agreed on the proposal to remove ASIC from the Public Service Act so that it would be less restricted in its hiring ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
To paraphrase Karen (Carpenter), "there's a kind of hush all over the world overnight". The violent upheaval in the bond and equity markets you, I and Irene witnessed over the past few days appeared to have eased. Perhaps, this is because the selling ...

Integrate next-gen insurance policies into NDIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... insurance so are there ways they could be integrated? Insurance policy benefits may also need to be more adaptive, said Richard Batten, partner at Minter Ellison Lawyers. "Do we need an ability to change policy benefits to reflect how medical treatment ...

Murray inquiry should simplify investment tax structures

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... should be focusing on simplifying Australia's tax structure to encourage foreign investment, Minter Ellison partner Richard Batten said. The law firm will send a submission to the Murray inquiry that will stress the need to "ask fundamental questions ...

Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013

Advisers at risk over asset-based fees

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2013
... fee-for-service models, and all these options can be managed if the adviser remains true to their fiduciary duty, Richard Batten, financial services partner at law firm Minter Ellison, told Financial Standard. While Batten said that ASIC would come down ...

CIO and COO award nominations now open

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... Year, and Stephen Rowbottom of HostPlus, for COO of the Year who will both be present at the evening in 2013 to pass on the batten to next year's award recipients. Recognising the great success of this year's event the organisers for the 2013 awards ...
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