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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... fantastic result, it was certainly, I think maybe well short of... the worst case scenario," Mr Wright said. ANZ chief executive Mike Smith today admitted the bank's involvement with collapsed margin lender Opes Prime had damaged its brand. ANZ picked ...

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... better with the economic reality of how modern farms operate. Illustrating the extent of the disconnect, WAFarmers president Mike Norton said Australian farmers have faced unfavourable government policy for well over a decade and as a result Australia ...

Escalator gets US tick of approval

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... investment powerhouse, Vanguard, as it continues to garner business from its Australian corporate clients. Plum managing director Mike Fitzsimons visited Vanguard at its US offices in August last year - at the peak of the sub-prime contagion. It was ...

IAG restructures and jumps on web

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... Direct Insurance to "pursue other opportunities", IAG said. Ex-Promina chief executive and current IAG chief operating officer Mike Wilkins said the structural overhaul "made sense" because both CGU and Business Partnerships similarly serviced intermediary ...

Clare joins Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... executive, Peter Clare to group executive of consumer financial services. Clare's appointment follows the resignation of Mike Pratt in December last year. Clare previously worked at St George for six years as head of strategy and then group executive ...

Governance before crisis

... expert. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Brisbane yesterday, University of Sydney academic Mike Rafferty said governance issues tended to emerge when a crisis or scandal has erupted, further stressing the necessity for ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
ANZ may be preparing investors for a capital raising. It is also noteworthy that ANZ and its CEO Mike Smith are taking the lead - given NAB and John Stewart took the opposite position in an interview with The Australian (and abstracted here) a couple ...

Goodall joins Plan for Life

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Former ANZ Financial Planning general manager, Mike Goodall has been appointed as a risk consultant at Plan For Life (PFL). According to Simon Solomon, managing director at Plan For Life, Goodall will facilitate implement PFL's Risk Online Quotation ...

Zurich sets up Climate Change council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008

The 93pc tax sting

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... members exceeding the concessional contributions cap - and be taxed up to 93 per cent as a result. Plum's managing director, Mike Fitzsimons, points out that there are many circumstances - such as contributions to more than a single super account and ...