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InvestSMART adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
ASX-listed InvestSMART Group has added a well-known financial commentator and editor to its board, which is chaired by Paul Clitheroe. Effie Zahos will join InvestSMART's board. She is currently editor-at-large at Canstar. Until last year she was ...

Fake tax agent penalised

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... preventing Caolboy from providing tax agent or BAS services for three years and remains unregistered from the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB). Justice Michael Wheelahan noted that Caolboy's actions were at the "serious end of the spectrum" as her clients ...

SASB appoints Australian advisor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... advisor for Australia following increased interest from local institutional investors. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has appointed Terence Jeyaretnam to the role, on a volunteer basis, to work with the increasing number of companies ...

Chief economist update: Letter V going viral in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... get better from here because: Since then, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has provided more money. At its 3 November Board meeting, it went a-cutting bringing the official cash rate target down to 0.1% from 0.25%; the target for the yield on the ...

Clime chief executive steps down

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... resignation follows a busy few months at Clime with Schafer's appointment last month as chair after 10 years on the board and with Peter Beaumont and Spork appointed as non-executive directors. Clime also announced last month it had appointed Mercer ...

Channel Capital in management buyout

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... made via Berkshire Global Advisors. In return Kudu will get a passive stake in Channel's business. It will not have any board positions. Channel Capital managing director and co-founder Glen Holding said the buyout and access to Kudu's capital ...

New York hedge fund invests in Thorney LIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... conducted a $27 million placement to institutional, professional and sophisticated investors, as a part of which Woodson came on board as substantial shareholder. It was priced at 35 cents a share, compared to 39.8 cent in pre-tax NTA for October. Woodson ...

Pension funds told to practice what they preach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... meantime, funds can make sure there is sufficient counterweight offered by management. Increase the diversity of the management board and the investment committee and thus increase the knowledge about responsible investment," she advised. "Finally, formally ...

New fixed income boutique launches

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... Waislitz's Thorney is major shareholder, and he or Martin Casey will have a non-executive directorhip on the five-person board. "We are excited by the opportunity to be working with Christian and his team. He is a best in class manager with a clearly ...

BAS agents to expand service offering

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
The Tax Practitioners Board has registered a new legislative instrument to allow BAS agents to expand their services in relation to the superannuation guarantee charge (SGC). The instrument, Tax Agent Services (Specified BAS Services No. 2) Instrument ...