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Local jobseekers enjoy strong executive search market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... increase compared with technology (37 per cent), life sciences/healthcare (26 per cent) and consumer (25 per cent). Jason Johnson, managing partner of Johnson Executive Search and director on the AESC global board, said the results are even more prominent ...

Govt to inject $25m into 'best practice' regulation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... plans to make Australia the Asia Pacific region's financial services hub. As part of that plan, and in response to the Johnson Report, he said the government will build a new centre, called the Centre for International Finance and Regulation, designed ...

Platinum snubs US healthcare reforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... cash problems and that's done quite well for us," she said. The fund's biggest holdings include Caliper Life Science, Johnson & Johnson and UCB SA. The fund beat the MSCI AC World Health Care index, returning 14 per cent in the year to February while ...

Risk-free no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... pay their debt than the US government! Bloomberg reports that bonds offered by Berkshire Hathaway, Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson and Lowe's yield less than US Treasuries of similar maturity. According to the report, 18 March trading data show ...

Islamic finance crucial for Australia: Crean

GOVERNMENT RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... resources-related services and infrastructure, which are ideal assets for forms of Islamic financing," said Crean. The Johnson Review found some 365,000 Muslims live in Australia and would use Islamic financial services if they were more accessible.

FPA loses chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... changes at the FPA but another challenge has presented itself that she is ready to take." Berry said the FPA had appointed Johnson Executive Search to find Bloch's replacement. In the meantime, Berry said the executive team would lead the association. ...

Financial services execs gain Aus day honours

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... New Zealand, was awarded an AO for his work in business and also for his support of the visual and performing arts. Mark Johnson, former deputy chair at Macquarie Group was also awarded an AO for his contribution to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... said Anne Stausboll, CalPERS chief executive. "We have turned all of this information over to the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, which is assisting us in our special review of placement agent activity given these and earlier disclosures," she added. ...

Johnson Report maps out new world order

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... management industry. The Australian Financial Centre Forum's report on Australia as a Financial Centre, also called the Johnson Report, was commissioned in September 2008 and released today. Among the recommendations is the creation of the Investment ...

CalPERS champions placement agent reform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... decline the opportunity to retain or invest with the external manager. As previously announced, the law firm Steptoe and Johnson is conducting a special review of placement agents used by CalPERS investment partners. "We understand the recent news is ...