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Austock launches planning arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... Austock Life Imputation Bonds, a master fund that uses an insurance bond tax structure. In April, the group created the Treasury Risk Advisory team to help clients manage their interest rate, currency and commodity investments. Established in 1991, Austock ...

Vanguard appoints CFO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... at AXA Asia Pacific in its Melbourne office and held roles across regional reporting, planning, corporate finance and treasury and was previously the firm's head of finance for distribution, product and marketing in Australia. Didier has extensive experience ...

Treasury Asia wins $61.9m Skandia mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has awarded a $61.9 million Asian mandate for its Global Best Ideas fund to Treasury Asia Asset Management. Treasury Asia Asset Management is a boutique investment manager specialising in active investment management in ...

Credit Suisse AM names Giubin as Ince's successor

... in both Investment Banking and Asset Management in Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo. She has also worked at the Treasury Corporation of Victoria, the Victorian Casino Control Authority and JP Morgan Australia. According to a company spokesperson ...

Research and rating firms welcome Govt review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Research houses have welcomed a review by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and Treasury into the role they, along with credit rating agencies (CRAs), played in the recent financial market turmoil and subsequent corporate collapses. ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney, takes the fight ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... Australia releases minutes of its May board meeting, Treasurer Wayne Swan speaks at an AICD lunch in Melbourne, and Federal Treasury Secretary Ken Henry gives a post-budget address to the Australian Business Economists. In data, the Australian Chamber ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... tax on foreign sourced investments. Given the efforts the investment industry has gone to convincing governments and Treasury of this over many years, this is a huge victory for the Investment and Financial Services Association. "The Budget has delivered ...

Short selling flaw lies in disclosure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... investment in the Australian market". Regulations concerning short selling are currently being reviewed by the Commonwealth Treasury and ASIC.

Anti-terrorism ins board names new director

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... executive. Meanwhile, Jim Murphy has been re-appointed to the board. Murphy is the executive director of the markets group in Treasury responsible for policy relating to financial systems including insurance, corporate regulation, competition policy ...