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Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... Labor and the Greens in a new alliance of independents. The Motoring Enthusiast Party's Ricky Muir, also broke away. This voting bloc meant that Labor had the numbers to disallow the regulations that were put in place by Cormann in June. In his interview ...

ASIC intervenes non-compliant Aurora listed funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... in listed schemes where shareholdings exceed 5% and to the prohibition against the acquisition of more than 20% of the voting power in a listed scheme. Aurora Funds Management is the responsible entity (RE) of a number of ASX-listed managed investment ...

Link acquires proxy solicitation firm

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... Americas. Proxy solicitation firms help corporations gain support for business proposals in a bid to achieve the desired voting result at shareholder meetings. Their role has become increasingly important as advocacy groups and institutional investors ...

Voting opens on the SelectingSuper popular awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
Voting has opened for the SelectingSuper 2014 self managed super fund (SMSF) administrator of the year popular choice and for the consumer choice award division of the SelectingSuper fund awards. Results in the SMSF popular vote will contribute to determining ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... at this juncture" or even extend the bond-buying program beyond October due to the market selloff. Jimmy might not be a voting member of the FOMC this year but he's the same guy who less than four months ago commented that, "markets don't appreciate ...

Merrill Lynch Equities Australia handed $96,000 fine

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... Lynch also failed to prevent an erroneous order into the ASX Trading Platform which resulted in a market for Class A non-voting common stock in News Corporation, not being both fair and orderly. The penalty refers to a trade made by a Merrill Lynch client ...

Companies must understand their investors better, report says

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
ASX-listed companies must work harder to understand what motivates the voting decisions of their major investors, a new report from the Governance Institute of Australia has argued. This call, part of a list of best practice principles and guidelines ...

UniSuper buys big into Westfield despite restructure war

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... Pearce insisted relations with Westfield and its chairman Frank Lowy remained cordial. "I said, 'Look Frank, we're not voting against you because we don't like you or we don't like the company. We actually really like this company, and we just want to ...

Labor, Greens will "keep fighting" after FoFA backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... their 1 July compliance regime. Yesterday, the motion to disallow the government's regulation did not pass with 34 senators voting against and 31 in favour. If the opposition was to be successful in altering the government's FoFA changes, it would need ...

Labor forces tabling of FoFA regulations

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... of Financial Advice) and the motion to table the regulations went through with 33 votes in favour and 29 against. Those voting in favour included senators of the Labor Party, the Greens, Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party Senator Ricky Muir and independent ...