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Challenger goes public

THE SHEET  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... the end of July. All the issuance in the intervening period has been in the form of private placements, making price discovery difficult. A case in point was Suncorp-Metway's mid-week private placement of A$400 million of prime RMBS via Apollo Series ...

NAB names new chief

WWW.THESHEET.COM, ASX STATEMENT  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... following his elevation from running the bank's business in Britain to replace Frank Cicutto in early 2004, following the discovery of several hundred million in trading losses on foreign exchange options. Clyne, 40, took the helm at BNZ in early 2007. ...

Macq Life imports underwriting and claims head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... head of underwriting and claims. Previously, Phillips founded one of South Africa's top five life insurance firm's, Discovery Life, and held the role of chief medical officer and head of underwriting within the company. Phillips began her career as a ...

Suncorp selects Symantec

... and regulatory compliance requirements," said Cameron. "For Suncorp, Enterprise Vault will be critical to enabling the discovery of corporate data from email systems, file server environments, instant messaging platforms, as well as content management ...

ANZ HFA alliance targets Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... a new capital protected investment fund focused on emerging Asian economies. According to a joint statement, the ANZ Discovery Asia Fund will provide investors with a unique opportunity to diversify from traditional investments to absolute return funds ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... developed by The Economist magazine "to describe the decline of the manufacturing sector in the Netherlands after the discovery of natural gas in the 1960s." "The hypothesis is that an increase in revenues from natural resources will de-industrialise ...

Streetwise $26m fraudster awaits sentence

... collapsed in 2005, owing more than $16 million to unsecured creditors and $14.5 million to secured creditors. Prior to the discovery of the fraud, Bangaru was featured in BRW's Rich List and owned several sports cars and multi-million dollar houses. ...

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... regulated entities. Bob Debus, the Minister for Home Affairs in the new government, was also there. But discussion about the discovery of the loophole took the shine off the occasion. Jensen said: "Managed investment schemes were always going to be covered ...

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... large cap manager's performance relative to the index, according to data from research software provider Inalytics. The discovery came when a UK pension fund client asked Inalytics to evaluate a portfolio of an underperforming large cap manager. The ...

AXA takes care of business

... training nor the facilities to be running our business profitably." By following AXA's program, Haywood made a painful discovery. "We found that we were overservicing our clients to the point that they [clients] thought were unnecessary. We also found ...