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Asgard appoints new head

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
Craig Lawrenson, head of product and strategy for BT Wrap, has been appointed the new head of Asgard. Lawrenson has been with BT for some 14 years, most recently as head of product and strategy for BT Wrap with responsibility for the design, execution ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
Kick off! While we continue to hold our collective breaths for the trio from the bush to tell us which political party "we voted for" last 21 August, campaigning has kicked off on our big brother's shores. It's Labor Day in the USA, heralding the start ...

ATO appoints integrity adviser

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... everyday work of the ATO supports good governance and promotes integrity," said D'Ascenzo. D'Ascenzo said Bugg's experience in law and justice administration will help him bring experience and skills to the position. Bugg was Commonwealth director of ...

Fuld me twice

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Almost two years after the failure of Lehman Brothers sent global markets into the tailspin that would eventually become the GFC, shamed former chairman and chief executive of the bank, Dick Fuld, fronted a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... and his uncle appear to be on the lookout for signs of bad news, there is a tendency for this September to succumb to the law of historical averages and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. But again, let me stress that while the financial media are having ...

SEC charges New Jersey with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
The US financial watchdog has cracked down on the state of New Jersey for securities fraud pertaining to fake municipal bond offerings and underfunding two of the state's largest pension funds. Mid this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Basis Yield lawsuit continues

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Basis Yield Alpha Fund (Master) (BYAFM) released a statement responding to the Goldman Sachs motion to dismiss BYAFM's security fraud suit that is currently pending in federal court in New York. Goldman Sachs has now argued that the case is a foreign ...

ISS co-founder leaves proxy advice industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
A prominent face of the Australia proxy advice industry has signaled his departure after ISS Australian operations co-founder Dean Paatsch announced that he is leaving the governance advisory firm after six years. Paatsch's history is that of being ...

AvSuper takes legal action against big fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... wrote to unitholders and advisers stating that they received correspondence from Greenfields Financial Services Lawyers, the law firm advising AvSuper, that Greenfields intended to apply to the NSW Supreme Court for a declaration of the super fund's ...

Great Southern legal battle continues

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Macpherson + Kelley Lawyers are progressing with their legal campaign against Great Southern, filing with the Victorian Supreme Court further allegations through a class action against the collapsed agricultural investment scheme manager. Formerly a ...