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Wilson calls for Hunter Hall exit

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... Hall to provide shareholders the opportunity to exit the company's Global Value LIC at fair value. In a letter to the directors of Hunter Hall Global Value Limited (HHV), Wilson said the opportunity should arise "following the disappointing events commencing ...

Sydney firm sees AFSL cancelled

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
ASIC cancelled the Australian Financial Services Licence of Sydney based insurance company Core Insurance for failing to lodge financial statements and auditor reports for two years. Core Insurance, which trades as Ferme, has held its AFSL since October ...

NSW government pins fintech job hopes to H2 Ventures

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... executive Daniel Foggo and General Assembly Australia founder Riley Bachelor. The venture was also backed by independent directors David Koch, Beyond Bank chair Anne O'Donnell, and former Assistant Innovation Minister Wyatt Roy. H2Ocean was forced to ...

BT strategist joins growth fund board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... funds management and advice industries. He is a chartered accountant and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Freeman has been with BTFG for more than 27 years, holding senior ...

MYOB appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... councillor at the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. In her new role, she will work alongside directors Craig Boyce, Paul Edgerley, Andrew Stevens and Anne Ward, chair Justin Milne and chief executive Tim Reed. Milne said: "It ...

Federal Court dismisses ASIC allegations

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... which collapsed in 2013. ASIC originally said that Peter Charles Drake, Francene Maree Mulder and Eghard van der Hoven, directors of LM Investment Management, failed to act with "the proper degree of care and diligence" in relation to transactions in ...

Life insurers complacent on Big Data

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... C-suite employees at 13 life insurance providers, two general insurers, 10 industry stakeholders and six EY partners and directors. It argues that life insurers are generally slow to embrace the positives of using Big Data in their businesses both because ...

NAB farewells two directors

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
Two directors who served on NAB's board since 2004 retired on Friday. Daniel Gilbert and Jillian Segal retired following the bank's annual general meeting; NAB chair Ken Henry thanked them for their "outstanding service" over the past 12 years. Gilbert ...

Australia dulled to gender diversity: AMP Capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... Peter, and that has to change," Halliday said. For the past six year AMP Capital called out companies with no female directors. It finds a positive correlation between a company's quality of governance and the number of females on the board. AMP Capital ...

Turnbull putting industry fund governance back on the table

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... organisations, unions and employer organisations will have the same levels of accountability and transparency as company directors do to their shareholders." He described these as straightforward reforms that were nonetheless "bitterly opposed," and ...