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ACT Super to review investment in tobacco and nukes

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... gambling industry, it has been revealed. A list of stocks that the government super fund holds that was released by ACT Treasury revealed the fund has indirect investments in weapons producers Textron and Raytheon, which produce cluster bombs. Cluster ...

Former Treasury head to be Westpac chairman

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Westpac Banking Corporation's board of directors have appointed former Commonwealth Treasury head Ted Evans as chairman to replace Leon Davis, effective March 2007. In the interim Evans has been appointed deputy chairman to assist with a smooth transition. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... Kong blue-chips fell as investors locked in profits in recent high-fliers like telecoms firms, with many eyeing the US Treasury Secretary's Beijing visit for the outlook for the yuan. The benchmark Hang Seng index ended down one per cent, or 188.98 points ...

Allco hunts niche finance acquisitions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... 19.9 per cent of the trust but its holding in the new company will be 37 per cent. Allco will provide management and treasury services to the new company. An Allco spokesperson said that consolidation in the finance company sector had provided scope ...

Planner PI insurance reforms unclear: AFA

... large licensees may well have the unintended consequences of forcing advisers into the institutional camp." Klipin said Treasury should make changes to the legislation, particularly around the interpretation of the term "adequate cover". He suggested ...

Analyse bonds differently to equities: Loomis Sayles

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
... important to understand that bond duration provides only an estimate of a bond's price change in response to changes in Treasury rates. "Certainly, duration is the most important risk measure for an all-Treasury portfolio since it accounts for a large ...

SimCorp expands local office

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
... Pension Services where he managed a portfolio of external institutional clients. Prior to that he was the manager of treasury and commodities accounting for Macquarie Bank. Chaseling has recently worked with DST International and BYSIS Hedge Funds, Chase ...

New alternatives offering from van Eyk

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... Hybrid Income Fund; Merrill Lynch's International Gold Fund 'D' units; CSL's Active Commodities Fund and Macquarie's Treasury Fund. The fund aims to provide rolling returns of 2.5 per cent above the cash rate. Van Eyk will charge a management fee of ...

Commonwealth revives Colonial hybrid

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
Commonwealth Bank's treasury managers have revived a controversial funding structure to sell $700 million in hybrid capital. CBA issued a bland and brief announcement yesterday that said the bank planned to issue ill-defined "Funds Management Securities". ...

Business doesn't buy compulsory healthcare: Watson Wyatt

... at Watson Wyatt Australia said that as the population ages, healthcare costs will become expensive. "As highlighted by Treasury estimates, spending on health and aged care is projected to rise, due to an increase in the number of people over 65 and an ...