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Improved governance called for all round

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... the board, not on a purely representative model," she said. Steven Burrell, general manager of communications and public affairs for the Australian Institute of Company Directors said boards that are made up of appointees from interest groups were not ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... And Europe's problems? Well, according to Dr Blundell-Wignall, the OECD's deputy director of financial and enterprise affairs, Australia will be immune from the crisis - but I would take his prognosis with a helping of salt.

Commonwealth trustee reforms passes Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... potential for lower fees, particularly for serving and former Defence Force personnel. Warren Snowdon, minister for veterans' affairs and defence science and personnel, said the improved efficiencies, if they lift net returns by an expected 0.5 per cent ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... http://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/a-modest-proposal-version-2-1-for-the-levy-institute-pdf.pdf And of course, there's also the "Vienna initiative" which Olli Rehn, the EU's economic and monetary affairs commissioner prefers and the EU is ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... the IMF in blocking the June transfer of more Greek aid, unless Athens does more to fix its public finances, economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn was quoted as saying Sunday. "Generally what we're seeing is that there's not a huge amount to go on," ...

Finsia selects new CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... working in the professional education department, Thomas became senior manager and then director of the policy and public affairs division from 2006. "The powerful combination of Russell's insight into the professional membership landscape and the execution ...

Riots turn fund managers to risk review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... managers to reassess their portfolios in the region, particularly their investments in mining stocks. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Dennis Richardson told the Paydirt Africa Down Under mining conference last year that over 170 Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... rebounded after taking a hammering on Wednesday on rumours that India's top accounting body was looking into its financial affairs. WELLINGTON - In New Zealand, logistics company Mainfreight delivered a strong result from a global business on Thursday ...

Cormann blasts ALP over default super

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... negotiate customised deals, according Rainmaker's 2010 Group Insurance and Super Fund Fee surveys. The Institute of Public Affairs in an occasional research paper released in April this year found that Australia's 166 revised modern industrial awards ...

Fees on SG super should be cost-recovery: IPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... superannuation should be slashed to only be on the basis of cost-recovery, said the conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Sinclair Davidson, a senior fellow at the IPA and professor of institutional economics at RMIT said, "[fees should ...