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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 ...

Speaker chaos could derail super reforms

... numbers currently 76 to 74, if a Labor member is made speaker and say a division (vote) were called while Kevin Rudd foreign affairs minister was out of the country at the same time as say the Treasurer was away at a G20 meeting or the defence minister ...

MLC Insurance on the hunt for new EGM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
MLC Insurance has an opening for the top job after Andrew Hagger assumes the new role of corporate affairs and marketing executive for National Australia Bank. This follows news that Hagger moves to corporate affairs while Andrew Howard, general manager ...

Asgard improves custody and corporate actions capacity

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... visibility, allows advisers to fully participate in the growth of SMSFs and helps with managing compliance and keeping general affairs in order," continued Power. As part of the new facility, Asgard will provide all corporate action notifications and ...

FPA maintains stance on commission ban

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... commissions on investments. Luke Hartsuyker, shadow minister for financial services, superannuation, corporate law and consumer affairs, previously said moving to a fee for service structure wouldn't resolve conflicts of interest issues. Deen Sanders ...