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No pay for failure: ACSI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... termination payout for the senior executive, in order to eliminate the element for shareholders in the future," said ACSI. The proposal to implement the UK formula follows the council's call for reform to provide the same shareholders with a greater ...

No sale for Suncorp

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
Suncorp chairman John Story has confirmed that discussions around the sale of the firm's banking and wealth management arms have ended for now. According to a statement released on the ASX, Story said that the market events in the past week in particular ...

When five become one: AUI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... seven properties in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria. Investors are expected to vote on the proposal at meetings held at the end of November, said Martin Hession, head of property at AUI. "We have put forward this proposal ...

Suncorp ripe for the picking

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
Suncorp confirmed it has received several approaches from companies besides Commonwealth Bank interested in buying the banking and wealth management divisions of the group. The group advised its shareholders the approaches may or may not lead to formal ...

Blame planners, not me: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Just when you thought the financial crisis couldn't get any crazier, former Treasurer Peter Costello said planners are to blame for super fund members losing money from their super fund accounts following the stockmarket rout. "The government didn't ...

APRA rebuffs super stats critics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... industry associations have argued for fund performance to be reported in gross and net terms, the APRA report rejected this proposal. "Even if it were possible to report gross returns, such returns are very much less important than net returns, so APRA ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... or 0.85 per cent, to $26.02. On Friday in the US, financial markets remained on edge after the Bush administration's proposal for a $US700 billion banking bailout ran into opposition from Republican and Democrat congressmen alike. The Dow rose 121.07 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... or 0.52 per cent to 4,934.63. NEW YORK - Financial markets remained on edge on Friday after the Bush administration's proposal for a $US700 billion banking bailout ran into opposition from Republican and Democrat congressmen alike. Stocks ended mixed ...

TARP or TRAP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... unemployment and slower economic growth. For his part, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stated that, '... this entire proposal is about benefiting the American people, because today's fragile financial system puts their economic well-being at risk. ...

Bail-out might breach US constitution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... Banking Committee hearings on Capitol Hill, Senator Christopher J Dodd, a Democrat congressman, said, "After reading this proposal, I can only conclude that it is not only our economy that is at risk, Mr Secretary, but our Constitution, as well," reported ...