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Chartwell director charged with $22m fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Former Chartwell Enterprises director Graeme Hoy was committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria on 224 charges brought by ASIC, including ripping $22 million off investors. In August 2009, Hoy was charged with two accounts of carrying ...

Treasury proposes mandatory governance principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Treasury is examining whether the ASX's corporate governance principles should extend to all 500 companies in the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index instead of the top 300 companies as part of a broader review of the audit industry. The Commonwealth Treasury's ...

ASSET Super appoints LGT Capital

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
ASSET Super has committed $50 million to invest with secondary market private equity investment firm, LGT Capital. The super fund has invested $12 million in the private equity investment firm's Crown Global Secondaries II product at the end of January ...

RFM to bring cashflow back to Great Southern MIS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Breaking out from the usual tradition of failed managed investment schemes being wound up, the newly-appointed responsible entity of two Great Southern almond schemes are giving investors another option that could get them more of their capital back. ...

Trader's market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
What's the trouble with Wall Street? It can't seem to make its mind these past three days - down, up, down. US equity indices closed lower last night after rising the day before and falling before the day before. Just writing that sentence has gotten ...

Sentiment stirs bad mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
OMG! We're in big trouble now - very...big...trouble. Didn't I tell you Virginia? Financial markets see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear? The Dow dropped by more than 100 points -- it's about one per cent in percentage terms but ...

Anderson appointed MD of Mercer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
David Anderson has been appointed managing director and market leader for Australia/New Zealand at Mercer, while the incumbent, Peter Promnitz, will now focus solely on his role as region head for Asia Pacific. Peter Promnitz has held the dual role ...

ANZ appoints Hogan as chief economist

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
ANZ has appointed Warren Hogan as chief economist for Australia. Hogan joined ANZ in 2005 and has been acting chief economist since Saul Eslake left in August last year. He will report to acting managing director global markets, Rob O'Callaghan. Warren ...

Property developer gets jail sentence

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Former property developer and mortgage broker, Samuel David Saunders, was sentenced two years and three months imprisonment with a non-parole period of 12 months after pleading guilty to seven ASIC charges. Saunders of Orange, New South Wales, was sentenced ...

GSJBWAM joins IFSA board

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Ian Ward-Ambler, managing director at Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management, has been appointed to the IFSA board, replacing Anne O'Donnell, former managing director at Australian Ethical Investment, who has resigned. This announcement comes after Anne ...