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Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... into the country. "Ministers will consider allowing overseas companies to own as much as 49 percent of local insurance ventures, from the current 26 percent, and for the first time permit foreign direct investment of as much as 26 percent in pension ...

110 years prison for ex-SIB chief

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... Stanford diverted the money into companies that he owned personally, in the form of undisclosed 'loans'. These business ventures included restaurants, a cricket tournament and various real estate interests. Evidence at the trail also showed that Stanford ...

AUI appoints new general manager

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
Australian Unity Investments has named Fiona Dunn as the new general manager, joint ventures and institutional. Dunn has held a number of senior business advisory roles, as well as being general manager of Perpetual's wholesales business, and was a ...

Sevior will not return: Perpetual

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... that its former star manager, John Sevior, will not return to his role as head of equities but will explore new career ventures for himself. Confirmed today by Cathy Doyle, Perpetual's group executive equities, Matt Williams will instead continue in ...

2012 China study tour launched

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... Australia's number one trading partner. Austrade has seen around 1500 companies increasing its investment proposals and joint ventures in the region annually, according to Austrade North East Asia regional director, Laurie Smith. Over the years since ...

AUI names four senior appointments

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... Barclays Global Investors, GESB and Sonshine FM. AUI's former executive manager, Kara Gilmartin, is now head of joint ventures. Gilmartin previously supported chief executive officer, David Bryant, in business-wide and joint venture initiatives and will ...

Mandiri open for Australian insto business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Indonesia's largest retail bank that has already attracted the attention of Australia's Commbank with some joint retail ventures. Abiprayadi Riyanto, president director of Mandiri Investasi, said they are one of the nation's leading asset managers with ...

Third Link appoints inaugural head of distribution

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... investment strategies and its profits are donated to the charitable sector, which includes the non-profit organisation Social Ventures Australia.

Snowball launches advice centre of excellence

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... process. Financial advisers of Snowball and Shadforth along with dealergroups communities such as Western Pacific and joint ventures such as QTCU financial planning can benefit from this initiative.

Government plants $60m innovation funding seed

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... Three innovation fund managers have received a total of $120 million of new funding to invest in Australian start-up ventures, half of which has been provided by the government. Through the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF), the government has invested ...