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ASIC appoints new commissioner

Outgoing Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner Jeffrey Lucy takes up a post at the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) as a partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques steps into his shoes. Lucy has taken up the role of part-time ...

Lending practices lack clarity

Should non-conforming lenders conform? A parliamentary inquiry into mortgage lending practices has prompted leading accounting firm Deloitte to call for more transparency and disclosure in the lending industry. Amid a housing market spooked by the US ...

CommunityCPS launches charity foundation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
Financial institutions in Australia routinely celebrate their wealth and profit results but more are trying to harness this to drive community marketing initiatives and charity foundations. The latest institution to do launch a charity foundation is ...

Australia IT needs more R&D

Australia has ranked fifth in terms of global competitiveness but has lagged behind other OECD countries on investment in research and development (R&D), according to a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Sponsored by the Business Software ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... court judgement on the c7 sports case is due out. An Australian Business Economists presentation will be given by economist Jeff Schubert on "Dictatorial CEOs through history: tricks of the trade". On the markets, the meeting for convertible note holders ...

Bank on high quality: ipac

... bargain levels because of the current investment fad of rewarding 'low quality' companies, said ipac's chief investment officer Jeff Rogers. He explained that if you go back to the bear market of 2002, some low quality companies were close to bankruptcy. ...

Hedge and non-hedge collide

... portfolios would become increasingly more complex as both traditional and hedge fund styles of investing continue to merge, said Jeff Rogers, chief investment officer at ipac Securities. Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium today, Rogers said ...

D'Aloisio put forward as Lucy's replacement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello has flagged his preference for who should fill the top job at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), proposing former Australian Stock Exchange head, Tony D'Aloisio, take over when current chairman Jeffrey ...

LDI spurs growth of bond derivatives

... locking in the risk', which is about covering those pension liabilities," said ipac securities' chief investment officer Jeff Rogers. According to JP Morgan research, 10 per cent of pension funds in the UK now use LDI and that there are between 30 to ...

Bluestone targets the smaller end of town

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
Bluestone Group is striding into more new territory with the announcement that it is establishing a new lending arm servicing the self-employed, sole traders and professional investors in the $10 billion commercial property market. The group has established ...