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ASIC chair appointed to IOSCO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... cooperation across its membership and with the industry. The Board also elected Ontario Securities Commission chairman Howard I. Wetston as IOSCO vice chair following the retirement of Ethiopis Tafara. "I want to build on Mr. Kono's work and ensure IOSCO ...

Conscious Capital launches Aussie equities fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... unlike other funds, our investors' profits are aligned with our own," he added. An investment committee of Stephen Harrison, Howard Coleman and Dr John Price manages the portfolio. They describe the process as index-agnostic and are free to invest in ...

Ancestry.com snapped up in PE deal

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... Equity Partners and TPG Capital, as well as Permira, about a possible deal. CEO Tim Sullivan and chief financial officer Howard Hochhauser will keep a majority of their equity stakes, and Spectrum Equity will remain an investor. Spectrum owns a 30% stake ...

Vanguard launches Fixed Interest Index ETFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... a broadly diversified portfolio which includes allocations to government, semi-government and corporate bonds. Stephen Howard, head of fixed income at Vanguard said that fixed income is an important diversifying component of investors' portfolios. He ...

Annuities regaining acceptance: Challenger

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... retirees and advisers uncomfortable is the core issue of what happens if the investor dies earlier than expected, said Sean Howard, manager of technical services at Challenger. Ironically, what stalled interest in annuities was when in 2004 the government ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... word. Everyone is so untrue." - Billy Joel, Honesty "There won't be a GST under the government I lead" promised Johnny Howard before being elected prime minister of Australia. "There won't be a carbon tax in a government I lead" promised Julia Gillard. ...

ClearView expands advice division

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... experienced advisers. Financial advice practices to have recently joined ClearView include the Leverington Financial Group, Peter Howard Insurances and the Insurance and Superannuation Centre. In addition, another six advice practices have joined the ...

Gonski to join APS board

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... with him," Cuffe said. Gonski led the Business and Community Partnerships Working Group on Taxation Reform set up by the Howard Government that resulted in a suite of changes to grow philanthropy, including the creation of Prescribed Private Funds (PPFs) ...

Business continues to resist 12pct SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... facto tax rise. Speaking on ABC radio last week, chief executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, former Howard government industrial relations adviser Peter Anderson, said it is duplicitous to say the superannuation increase is being ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... billion. Since the ALP government was elected in December 2007 it has increased 34%, compared to it's 134% increase during the Howard government's 11 year reign during 1996 to 2007. The RBA estimates that only 14% of this net external debt is held by ...