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VTP board backs capital return to shareholders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... Cameron McCullagh and independent directors David Iliffe and Andrew Grant. They were replaced by Dixon Advisory executives: Alan Dixon, Alex MacLachlan, Chris Brown and Chris Duffield. Nisbett and John Vatovec joined the board soon after. Brown, a VTP ...

Planners sidelined for self-investing strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... are putting the blame of underperformance firmly in the advisers, be they fund managers or accountants or brokers," said Alan Shields, research director for Retail Finance Intelligence on the survey results. Advisers commissions have also come under ...

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... Carlyle/Riverstone retained Searle, a company associated with Henry ("Hank") Morris, the chief political aide to then Comptroller Alan Hevesi, as a placement agent to help obtain investments from the CRF. Prior to retaining Searle, the companies had ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... policy every time re-nomination day comes. And at the end of the day, the sitting Chairman remains seated in his job. Think Alan Greenspan and his 19 years at the helm of the world's most powerful central bank. Many of today's market participants and/or ...

Walter Scott announces investment successors

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
Walter Scott has promoted Jane Henderson as managing director of the investment management group as Alan McFarlane steps down from the role. The appointment is designed to strengthen the Edinburgh-based investment manager. Henderson previously worked ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... Telecommunications Ltd, parent of Optus, is to announce second quarter and first half earnings results. Qantas Airways Ltd chief executive Alan Joyce addresses a National Aviation Press Club lunch in Sydney. Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd and forestry ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... fed funds rate from a low of 1.0 per cent in 2004 to 5.25 per cent by mid-2006. Remember former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's head scratching 'interest rate conundrum'? It appeared that there was no stopping the Dow from running far, far ...

VTP appoints two more directors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... Iliffe and Andrew Grant. Instead, both Nisbett and Vatovec join the four new directors namely Dixon Advisory's executives Alan Dixon, Alex MacLachlan, Chris Brown and Chris Duffield. Nisbett said in a press statement that the 25 per cent on market share ...

October - an E (entry/exit) point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... had gotten ahead of the economy. Or those professing that while there would be a recovery, it would be slow -- 'El Maestro' Alan Greenspan recently joined this camp. Or those saying that this will all end in tears as the global economy double-dips when ...

Shareholders remove van Eyk Three Pillars board

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
Dixon advisory group director Alan Dixon said the outcome of today's van Eyk Three Pillars EGM, which saw majority of shareholders vote the current VTP board out, is a triumph for the "small" shareholders. Nearly 60 million of the 80 million-plus votes ...