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Government opens doors to offshore investment vehicles

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... legislation is the CCIV framework, which is modelled on the UK's Open-Ended Investment Companies regime. Under the framework, a company can register as a CCIV if it is limited by shares and operated by a single corporate director; holds an Australian ...

Australian investment firm opens London office

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... management, offering a variety of products including its flagship global long/short strategy as an Australian listed investment company and an Ireland-domiciled UCITS fund. Commenting on the firm's two-year anniversary, chief investment officer Jacob ...

Trustee Partners names Australian GM

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... same time as Peterson's appointment, Sargon also announced it had made strategic investments in both the Hong Kong Trust Company and the New Zealand Trust Company. "This is an exciting new development as it builds a strategic partnership across Asia ...

Centrepoint Alliance seeks new MD, records strong FY17 profit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... following the resignation of John de Zwart. Announced today in tandem with the group's annual results, de Zwart will leave the company in November after four-and-a-half years in the role to spend more time with family and friends. Centrepoint Alliance ...

Executives have 90 days to make impact

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... role," according to finance executive Linda Armstrong. Armstrong, who recently became finance director of global beverage company, Jacobs Douwe Egberts for Australia and New Zealand, told senior leaders at this week's 5th Women in Finance and Accounting ...

Indefensible bonuses cause for concern: ACSI

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... have qualified for any payments in first place," she said. The survey also shows that increasing investor pressure for company boards to exercise restraint when it comes to chief executive salaries is being reflected. The overall median realised pay ...

Freedom Insurance flags acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... distribution contract with NobleOak. In February, Swiss Re became the insurer of its distributed products. Cohen flagged the company has a medium-term goal of becoming the second largest participant in the $441 million direct life insurance market for ...

CBA faces shareholder class action

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
... extensive and it is astounding that the market would not be advised of such serious and repeated breaches as soon as the company became aware of them." "Instead the CBA has said that its board was aware of the breaches in the second half of 2015 but ...

Independent director joins Westpac board

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... managing director of Equifax Australia and New Zealand (formerly Veda Group), will transition to an advisory role within the company in early 2018. She joined Veda Group, a credit information and analysis company in 2011 and was instrumental in helping ...

QVG Capital launches inaugural fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2017
... shared a proven track record over a sustained period. "With the QVG Opportunities Fund we'll continue our approach to small company investing with a fund structure that allows us to focus on sustained performance over the long term," Prunty said. Prunty ...