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Prescriptive regulation is not the answer: Tanner

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... ICGN is showing some restraint this year," he said. "I do hope you'll bear with us if we do not indulge in our usual practice of holding lavish gala events outside the venue but we're being well looked after by the Hilton Hotel and the main thing is ...

Best of the best at Securitor

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... picked the cream of the crop for this year's awards ceremony held at the Securitor conference in Darwin. The Securitor practice of the year award was handed out to Primewealth, of New South Wales. Guy Wall, Christian Borkowski and Peter Gooden are the ...

Choice members up 25pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... cent of the working population, as opposed to around 9 per cent in the same period last year. Choice-of-fund is the practice of an employee choosing a super fund other than the default fund selected by the company. In many cases, this could mean staying ...

Financial Wisdom recognises its best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... adviser, Cameron O'Sullivan won Financial Wisdom's practice and rising star awards respectively. Financial Wisdom Practice of the Year, Wealth Wise, employs six advisers and 11 support staff and achieved a 40 per cent growth in revenue last financial ...

CalPERS halts lending to big four

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The $274 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has temporarily stopped the lending of troubled Wachovia, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and State Street shares. Anne Stausboll, interim chief investment officer of CalPERS ...

AustralianSuper sticks with securities lending

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
AustralianSuper has reviewed its securities lending protocols and decided to continue the practice. "AustralianSuper, similar to most super funds, employs a range of short and long-selling strategies in order to maximise investment returns to members," ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

... to be implemented in 2009. The directive is designed to reduce the costs and complexity of voting and eliminate the practice of 'share blocking', disallowing investors from trading their shares at the time they want to exercise their votes. Meanwhile ...

Cairns planner jailed for fraud

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... notes and deeds, which Walters used to gain an advantage for himself and Drury Management, a Cairns-based accounting practice of which Walters was a director, or cause a detriment, by using the investors' funds for his own purposes. Walters was originally ...

Deloitte merges with analytics boutique

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... firm Analytic Insight. The team of eight consultants based in Sydney and Melbourne will join an existing national practice of 70 at Deloitte. Deloitte chief executive Giam Swiegers said the merger would help them assist companies with what he called ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... simplified set of GST requirements. A standard formula would be used to assess GST credits as opposed to the present practice of recording credits on every single purchase. The government announced that it would also initiate a requirement for all new ...