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Treasury proposes mandatory governance principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... ASX's corporate governance principles should extend to all 500 companies in the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index instead of the top 300 companies as part of a broader review of the audit industry. The Commonwealth Treasury's consultation paper, Audit Quality ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street and oil prices flat in afternoon trade but metals prices weaker. At 0800 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract ...

Women make up 30 pc of trustees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Days after Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young called for 40 per cent of board directors of Australia's Top 200 ASX listed companies to be women, research by Rainmaker released today on International Women's Day confirmed that not even not-for-profit ...

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
The sovereign wealth fund transparency index has found that Australia's $66 billion Future Fund is slightly less transparent than SWFs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), New Zealand and Azerbaijan. The SWF Institute has developed the Linaburg-Maduell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher with Wall Street posting modest gains in late afternoon trade amid negative home sales data and positive news on retail sales and unemployment benefits. At 0804 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Deutsche appoints head of fin institutions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... the coming weeks to lead the practice. "Just over three years ago, the Australian management team set the objective to be a top-three investment bank by profitability, market share and reputation across our business. Geoff's appointment is another important ...

AIA on hiring spree

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... Dean Carey, has taken responsibility for managing the AXA and AFS dealer group relationship. This responsibility will be on top of his existing role as Victorian and Tasmanian state manager. AIA also renamed its phone-based adviser services team as Adviser ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open relatively flat as Wall Street edged into the red at its close as the Federal Reserve said the economy continues to grow at a slow pace. At 0825 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price ...

US fund managers say long term, trade short term

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... system where there is some audit done, this might be one of those issues that could require the industry bodies to get on top of," said Arnold. "This is just one aspect of the overall trend towards short-termism for the whole industry, there's a lot ...

Attack of the million-dollar virus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... the subject of cyber attacks in the past 12 months. Not surprisingly, 43 per cent of those surveyed ranked security as their top issue, ahead of natural disasters, terrorism and traditional crime. The scale of the problem is highlighted by Symantec's ...