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Industry looks to draw line under reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... it's limiting our ability to build confidence in our sector through engaging effectively with the community," said Maher. John Van Der Wielen, managing director of ANZ Wealth said the lack of clarity around legislation had caused people to take their ...

GESB appoints chair

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
John Langoulant is the new chairman of the board at WA-based super fund GESB. The $11.5 billion fund appointed Langoulant, chief executive officer of Oakajee Port & Rail, for a five-year period from March 7, 2011. "Langoulant's extensive government ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... misrepresentation. But back to Greece and contagion. For my next witness I call on former Bank of England deputy governor Sir John Gieve. Commenting on the crisis, Sir John said that, "...there has been sort of a Lehman's moment in the EU... They have ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... alarm markets that the domestic economy is in bigger trouble than it is and big enough to show that it's eye is still on the ball. Not happy Glenn. But it appears that the RBA's cut was not deep enough for Australia's biggest banks going by NAB's decision ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... be correct. Rationale or not, who would save money for tax payables in the long run? Wasn't it another great economist - John Maynard Keynes - who said that, in the long run, we're all dead? Well, the long run has come, and Americans are not dead, so ...

Mercer opens first ext advice practice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... advice practice in Baulkham Hills, Sydney, just three months after it launched the new advice channel. Practice director, John Tsekas, a financial adviser with 15 years experience, joins the Mercer advice network. Scott Walters, Mercer Wealth Solutions ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... investors for a capital raising. It is also noteworthy that ANZ and its CEO Mike Smith are taking the lead - given NAB and John Stewart took the opposite position in an interview with The Australian (and abstracted here) a couple of weeks ago. In a speech ...

Asian hedge fund to target Australian assets

... convergence trading, arbitrage, event driven strategies and long/short equities. The new fund is to be managed by Tim McGovern and John Corr of Australian-based Fortitude Capital on a sub-advisory basis. Fortitude are a long established alternative investments ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2005
... Foster's takeover of Southcorp, with five directors retiring from the Southcorp board yesterday, including managing director John Ballard, to be replaced by three new directors nominated by Foster's. Telstra was steady at $4.92. The new head of Telstra ...

AFS licensees behind the eight ball with account lodgement

Almost 15 per cent of Australian financial services (AFS) licensees are overdue with lodging their 2004 annual accounts and auditor reports with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The 618 licensees with overdue accounts were ...