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FINSIA appoints new president

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... Birch is an executive director of Macquarie Capital Advisers in Sydney with over 20 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, specialising in the financial services sector. "We have seen Finsia develop through substantial changes in the last few ...

ASIC appoints new commissioner

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... Commission (ASIC) for the past 12 years, holding a number of senior positions. He was involved in fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, financial services, accounting and audit and policy development at the commission during this time. Price is also ...

MLC shakes up portfolio allocations

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... will probably remain constant for a few years but we see the variability changing before that such as mergers and acquisitions or new indexes," said Sumner. "Once we detect more variety that will be when we will reallocate." In terms of longevity however ...

Superannuation needs more regulatory resilience: ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... invested increases," said Medcraft. "Growth in equities affects ASIC's market placing teams that oversee mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, brokers and markets themselves. Growth in fixed income, property and cash and managed investment schemes ...

ESSSuper names new chief executive officer

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... more than 20 years' experience in financial markets and has held senior roles in finance, strategy and mergers and acquisitions across the superannuation and the funds management Industries. "Mark brings to the CEO position proven skills and abilities ...

HFT and dark pools keep ASIC on its toes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... of the national exchanges, so it's not surprising that their reaction has been to try and grow though mergers and acquisitions. Yet three high-profile mergers including Deutsche Boerse/NYSE Euronext have been blocked by regulators on competition grounds ...

FOFA heats up competition for planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... paper, CoreData said that systemic pressure to attain scale rapidly was already evident after a number of mergers and acquisitions already in the planning space. Mark Taylor of Stature Financial Planning, a practice which is licensed through Hillross ...

QIC appoints new board directors

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... years experience in business valuations, commercial, strategic, corporate and infrastructure advice, mergers and acquisitions, corporate re-organisations, and Australia to Asia business relations. Murdoch has over 37 years chartered accountancy experience ...

Beulah seizes post-FOFA opportunity

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... identified post reform advantages and launched its Takeover Target Managed Account to capitalise on takeovers, mergers and acquisitions by companies across a range of industries. Christian Ryan, director of Beulah, told Financial Standard that the advantage ...

Investors eye aged care infrastructure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... industry after this weeks final report on the aged care sector from the Productivity Commission gave way to mergers and acquisitions opportunities for domestic and foreign investment. Currently investment in modern nursing homes is stilted due to Australian ...