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The joys of an independent board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
What value does an independent board of directors add to an investment company? That's a question that directors of top UK investment companies met to answer yesterday. At a conference organised by 86-year old Association of Investment Companies (AIC) ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Australia's economic scorecard is out. GDP growth has plummeted to 0.3% in the March quarter compared to 1.1% last quarter, leaving economic annual growth at a lackluster 1.7%. Economic growth slowing by one third in past year adds to the pressure piling ...

ANZ and Macquarie fined for cartel conduct

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
The Federal Court granted ANZ and Macquarie's wishes to pay fines totaling $15 million for attempted cartel conduct in 2011. As suggested to the court, ANZ will pay $9 million - admitting it engaged in 10 instances of attempted cartel conduct in contravention ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
Many pension funds and insurance companies around the world are staring insolvency in the face unless they adopt measures that address an imbalance between assets and liabilities. This is the view of OECD director financial and enterprise affairs, and ...

Wilson HTM shareholders approve acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... head the capital markets division. This is the last step of a process that has seen ASX-listed Wilson HTM Investment Group (WIG) transfer its shareholdings in the securities business to a new corporate vehicle known as Wilson HTM Securities and Advisory. ...

Ball rolling in Wilson HTM spin-off deal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... Deutsche Bank and Craigs Investment Partners before the year is out. Under the proposed deal, Wilson HTM Investment Group (WIG) will transfer its shareholdings in the Securities business to a new corporate vehicle known as Wilson HTM Securities and Advisory ...

Wilson HTM reveals details of business transformation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
Wilson HTM (WIG) directors have revealed some of the details of the transformation process that the business is going through, including the establishment of a standalone securities business and significant changes to the board of directors. Chairman ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
In July last year Industry Super Australia (ISA) chief executive David Whiteley stood alongside Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden and announced that the two wings of superannuation would be burying the hatchet. They wouldn't ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Drugs, prostitution, arms dealing, people trafficking and contraband are usually the scourge of politicians. But new European Union (EU) rules mean these illicit industries could provide European politicians with the wiggle room they need to increase ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
If three weeks (almost) ago European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi still gave himself a bit of wiggle room not to act (or defer action) - "after having seen the Staff projections that will come out in early June" - he did none of that when ...