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End for scheme scamming Greek community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
An unregistered managed investment scheme has been ordered into liquidation and its directors banned from carrying on a similar business after they raised over $2.5 million from investors, predominantly from Melbourne's Greek community. The Supreme ...

PIS gets behind the wheel for racing sponsorship

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... off-track activities." In 2006 PIS purchased 107 planner-strong Canadian financial planning operation Generation Financial Corporation and the group has operations in New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, China and is about to finalise its first acquisition ...

Mellon scores GESB global mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... from the Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB). The Australian distribution subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation, the global giant with more than A$1.3 trillion in funds under management, will manage the global equity mandate through ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... first half sales numbers, while National Australia Bank will front shareholders at its annual general meeting. Alesco Corporation also is set to reveal its profit result for the first half, while in the resources sector, Roc Oil and Macarthur Coal will ...

State Street ploughs $715m into online FX

State Street Corporation is to buy online foreign exchange trading platform Currenex for more than $715 million (US$564 million), increasing its foothold in the rapidly growing online foreign exchange sector. Foreign exchange is the largest and most-liquid ...

Energy field nationalism to impact investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... ownership claims by nationalising parts of their resources industries. The Australian Government Export Finance Investment Corporation (EFIC), effectively the Australian Government's export credit agency, reports that resource nationalism has become ...

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. ...

Orix sells to Allco

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... this week. Details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Orix Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Orix Corporation of Japan. Allco announced that it will turn the Allco Hybrid Investment Trust into a listed company and use it as a vehicle ...

Mirvac to launch new funds after $1.1b buying spree

... property giant Mirvac Group has stitched up a deal to acquire worth $1.124 billion of properties and business from Walker Corporation which will underpin new funds to be launched within the next 12 months. The acquisitions include $362.5 million of investment ...

MLC adds to implemented consulting team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... Life in South Africa where he headed up the corporate consulting team. Klug has also spent time with Anglo American Corporation and the South African Government. Klug is tasked with business development focusing on strategic asset consulting to MLC's ...