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Grange scores new equities director and researcher

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
Grange Securities is rebuilding its equities team with the appointment of a director to head the institutional equities team. Peter Talbot, formerly a director of Patersons, head of domestic equities sales at JP Morgan and before that at County NatWest/Saloman ...

SG not a tax: Tax Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
Treasurer Costello's long awaited international tax comparison report has reluctantly agreed that the 9 per cent SG is not a tax. However, the 412 page report, released yesterday, gives few other clues about which way the government might budge regarding ...

Skandia adds flexibility with non-commutable pensions and TAPs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
Skandia has added non-commutable allocated pensions (NCAPs) and term allocated pensions to its superannuation product menus. Will Burkitt, head of investments at Skandia, said, "The introduction of NCAPs is one of the most exciting innovations in retirement ...

Aurora to IPO $150 million buy-write trust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
Aurora Funds Management (Aurora) is launching an initial public offer for its new listed Aurora Buy-Write Income Trust. Aurora said the trust will use an active strategy of selling exchange traded call options over a geared portfolio from the S&P/ASX ...

MacarthurCook acquires retail syndicates from PIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
Specialist real estate investment manager MacarthurCook Ltd has acquired Arc Funds Management and its property syndicates from the Professional Investment Services. The arrangement adds the combined $110 million Brand Smart Nunawading and Riversmart ...

Business costs calculator to help govt implement policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
Public servants proposing new legislation will be able to use a real life business costs calculator to assess how much their proposals are adding to business costs. Responding to the need for all parties, business and government, to better understand ...

Industry groups ecstatic over red tape rationalisation proposals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
Industry groups are falling over themselves to applaud government proposals to rationalise government red tape. Last week the Treasurer, Peter Costello announced a range of reforms designed to monitor, control and reduce government red tape that in ...

Tax reform calls often about welfare not tax: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2006
Even before the Government's 400 page Tax Inquiry report has been printed, the Treasurer is working hard to manage the expectations coming out of it. In an interview yesterday on SKY, Treasurer Peter Costello said that the real debate is not so much ...

Challenger number one for annuities: Plan For Life

... services it offer to financial planners. "We provide online quotes, we have a very strong technical services, team headed up by Alex Denham and they are constantly out there providing education to fin planners about technical issues, including retirement ...

Tyndall strengthens analyst team

... and financial services industry and has worked at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and SocGen Securities in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Alex Whight has taken the role of assistant investment analyst in Tyndall's equities team. Prior to Tyndall, Whight was a performance ...