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Lazard faces losses on Hastie collapse

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... suspended. The embattled firm yesterday named PPB Advisory as administrators to 44 companies in the Hastie Group, providing technical and engineering services to the building, infrastructure and resource sectors. Almost all Australian banks had an exposure ...

MAFTA provides new Asian opportunities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... services are in line with similar changes have taken place in a range of services such as education, telecommunications, technical and professional services. "There is a services boom happening on our doorstop in Asia, but Australian access to these ...

Fidante Partners continues expansion with new hire

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... strategic alliances. "We welcome his deep knowledge across all asset classes Australian equities in particular; strong technical funds expertise and working relationships across the super funds industry." Six of the 11 boutiques under the Findante umbrella ...

Medcraft to chair IOSCO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... a streamlining of IOSCO's structure, the new Board was constituted in Beijing through a three-way merger of IOSCO's Technical Committee, Executive Committee and the Emerging Markets Committee Advisory Board. Medcraft was appointed chairman of ASIC in ...

Insurance bonds offer tax effective strategy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... work particularly well as a complimentary wealth accumulation strategy," said Damian Hearn, IOOF TechConnect senior technical services manager. "People don't always invest for tax reasons but they need to start making tax intelligent decisions when it ...

TAL makes executive appointments

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... change in life insurance companies. We are looking forward to seeing him leverage this experience, along with his deep technical expertise, at TAL."

Insurance bonds back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... said Ross Higgins, Austock managing director. Higgins was speaking at the fourth installment of Financial Standard's Technical Services Forum in Sydney yesterday. With insights from some of the top technical minds working in the industry, the Forum looked ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... share price, which was a major contributor to the performance of US markets overnight but overall we're getting some technical strength coming through in the overall market," he said. McCarthy said investors had been waiting for the sideways trading ...

Trustee reforms risk being neutered

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... by the fund. The inability of superannuation legislation to 'look through' trustee company arrangements, which are in technical terms a service provider to the fund, will consequently neuter any reforms before they have even been enacted. The same degrees ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... that followed a 0.3% contraction in the fourth quarter of last year. What does a back-to-back GDP contraction spell? A technical recession, that's what. Certainly, the Cameron government's spending cuts and increased taxes have something to do with this. ...