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NSW budget to focus on creating infra deals

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... investment opportunities in infrastructure, with the aim of luring funds back from interstate and overseas projects. NSW Treasurer Mike Baird is believed to have brokered a deal with State Super that will see money that would have been invested in overseas ...

PM rejects lifting retirement age to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... year threshold. "We are not revisiting those decisions," she said. But chief executive of the National Seniors lobby group, Mike O'Neil, was more forthcoming is his outright rejection of any proposal to lift the retirement age higher. He labelled the ...

Aus investors over-reacting on Euro fears

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... countries where the banking system is broken, confidence is shot and activity has already had a nasty demand shock," said Mike O'Sullivan, global head of strategy, thematics and portfolio analysis at Credit Suisse. "For me, this is the underlying worry." ...

MAFTA provides new Asian opportunities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... Trade for successfully negotiating this important agreement," said Insurance Australia Group's managing director and CEO, Mike Wilkins. Malaysia is a priority market for Insurance Australia Group and its Malaysian joint venture business, AmG Insurance ...

Tyndall scoops Causeway AM

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... Tyndall Australian and international equities, fixed income and multi manager investments. The move follows the appointment of Mike Davis, a co-founder of causeway, as managing director of Tyndall AM in April. Causeway was co-founded by Davis and Tim ...

Patterson steps down as Perennial CEO

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... platform management and administration, investment management and trustee services. In 2006, Patterson and fellow executive Mike Crivelli shared a speculated $40 million when IOOF paid $69.9 million to buy the remaining 21.58% of Perennial that it did ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... the June share price index futures contract was down 76 points at 4,084. In economic news on Friday, ANZ Chief executive Mike Smith will deliver a speech to a Trans Tasman Business lunch. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 8.1 points, or 0.19 per cent ...

Hastings consortium snaps up de-sal plant

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... infrastructure that our state so desperately needs and with no impact on customer water bills or water security," said NSW Treasurer Mike Baird in a statement. The announcement follows recent debate among institutional investors regarding the government's ...

Wealth down as ANZ records bumper profit

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... of 5%. "In Australia, we made market share gains and customer satisfaction remained strong," said chief executive officer Mike Smith. "Our financial performance however was subdued, significantly impacted by declining margins and the structural shift ...

Treasury Group adds director

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... Group as an independent non-executive director. Effective since March 28, Donnelly was welcomed to the board by chairman Mike Fitzpatrick who said her extensive financial services experience will add value to the board. "Ms Donnelly has worked with some ...