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Austock's McFarlane resigns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Austock Group director and chair, Michael McFarlane has resigned from his roles for personal reasons. McFarlane has resigned his position as company director and his chair positions on the firm's Property Management and, separately, the Funds Management ...

FTSE 'watches' Greece and South Korea

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
FTSE's annual review of county classification resulted in a new 'watchlist' that could see the promotion Taiwan to 'developed' status and Greece being demoted to 'advanced emerging' status. FTSE classifies each country into four categories: developed ...

Mercer appoints consulting director

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Mercer has promoted Nick White as director of consulting, Asia Pacific. White worked as a senior consultant across asset liability modelling projects in the UK before moving to Australia in 2004 where he took a role as head of manager research at Aon ...

Fund manager sentenced

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Sydney based Gregory Nathan has been sentenced to seven years in prison following an Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation that found he had acted dishonestly and gambled investors money. ASIC found Nathan operated an unregistered ...

AMP taps first home saver market

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... contribute 17 per cent on the first $5,000 of individual contributions made each year," said AMP Banking managing director, Michael Lawrence. According to AMP, borrowers are allowed to withdraw the funds after an annual minimum contribution of $1,000 ...

AMP planning school broadens intake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
AMP Financial Planning's Horizon Financial Planning Academy is accepting recruits from Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory in its next intake. The next intake begins next week and the program starts in January. Tim Steele ...

IRESS upgrades service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... good money to then take a massive annual pay cut, what am I going to do? The obvious answer is to say, diversify," said, Michael Kinens, IRESS Market Technologies senior business development executive. "So they're looking at income protection and life ...

ANZIIF launches website

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) is launching a website to encourage young insurance professionals to get involved with industry events and new developments. The institute's website is part of the Generation ...

Mahogany assesses Lehman exposure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed, Mahogany Capital is voluntarily suspending the trading of its $75 million Notes Series I ahead of possible financing issues with Lehman Brothers. The firm announced the trading halt two days ago and then ...

TOWER and BNY Mellon clarify position

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
Australian insurance giant, TOWER and global financial services firm, Bank of New York Mellon have been quick to clarify the firms have little to no exposure to Lehman Brothers and AIG. In an Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) statement, TOWER Australia ...