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Practice management important for advisers

... management development. The results are revealed from a MLC national survey of 600 advisers nationwide. The role of independence however was not identified as an important criteria for the provider of practice management services. Advisers identified ...

Brokers urged to improve web services

... with more investors relying on their own research before making investment decisions. "They are achieving higher independence by educating themselves, using trading tools and doing their own analysis in their own time, on top of the information they ...

ASIC welcomes closer scrutiny on advertising guidelines

... concern to ASIC." Tanzer also highlighted that the regulator had previously taken action against unjustified claims of independence and impartiality but said the industry also had to do its part. "While ASIC will continue to carefully monitor the marketplace ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2004
... the Australian share market should remain fairly light today without a lead from Wall Street which was shut for the Independence Day holiday. Shares in Europe and Asia closed mixed in very light volumes. Prices of metals rose overnight on the London ...

Walter piles on pressure ahead of National Bank shareholder meeting

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2004
... directors, led by chairman Graeme Kraehe, are asking shareholders to dump Walter from the board after her attack on the independence of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report into the rogue trading scandal. In a statement yesterday, Walter demanded clarification ...

ASIC says 22 companies didn't disclose directors options

... Technologies; Broadtel Communications; EBET; Fleetwood Corporations; Gale Pacific; Garratts; H W W; Hudson Securities; Independence Gold; MIA Group; Norwest Energy; Pepercorn Management Group; Prime Television; Spotless Group; Stericorp; Supersorb Environmental ...

Treasury warns on global recovery

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2003
... points earlier this month. Labor has vowed to remove Treasury's representative from the bank board to enhance its independence, after Treasury boss Ken Henry used his position to argue for an interest rate cut in June. In a speech to the same World Financial ...

Corporate governance practices have worsened in past year: survey

... commissioned by accounting group Howarth, the University of Newcastle Business School's Jim Psaros and Michael Seamer said independence levels of boards and corporate committees had deteriorated in the past year. "This suggests that some companies are ...

Industry fund takes strong stand on corporate governance

... accountability of corporate boards and management to shareholders. The guidelines also cover such issues as board and auditor independence, management performance, and financial disclosure. According to Unisuper, managers will be expected to vote either ...

Some CLERP rules "excessively prescriptive"

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... role of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to include oversight of audit standard-setting arrangements and audit independence, but said the FRC should also cover audit quality. He said PWC supported the proposal for an annual declaration by auditors ...