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PIPA suspends Money Choice director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... neglecting to comply with provisions of the constitution or if found guilty of conduct which in the opinion of the of the board is prejudicial to the interests of the company," he said. Among ASIC's findings was that George had been giving unlicensed ...

Cbus chair Steve Bracks to resign

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
Cbus chair Steve Bracks will resign as chair of the Cbus board to accept a federal government position as Australian Consulate-General in New York. Bracks joined the board in 2009 and his resignation will become effective from 1st September 2013. "Under ...

Govt loses, then wins vote on super legislation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
The House of Representatives voted in favour of Opposition amendments designed to ensure at least a third of super fund trustees have to be independent before the government regrouped to rule out the amendment. According to a statement from Opposition ...

EQT ups offer for Trust Company

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... necessary to quantify the synergies and costs of the revised proposal. EQT has revised its offer after The Trust Company board recommended its shareholders to ignore the offer and considered it "undervalued and opportunistic."

No middle ground post-FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... been a bit of a burden on that cycle and has created the feeling that the train is leaving and everyone wants to get on board and if we didn't have FoFA we would be seeing a normal cycle." Netwealth managing director Michael Heine added that "dealer ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... interest (it's well-known that he has shorted the A$) meets self-fulfilling prophesy to moi. Or was it the almost across-the board US$ dollar strength? The US dollar appreciated against most of its currency pairs last week on the back to what is now ...

The Trust Co recommends Perpetual merger

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
The Trust Company board has recommended unanimously that its shareholders support the Perpetual proposal to acquire 100% of its shares. The Perpetual proposal would result in shareholders receiving 0.1495 Perpetual shares for each share held in The ...

Frontier and Rogerscasey form research alliance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
Frontier Advisors and Segal Rogerscasey have partnered to establish a Global Investment Research Alliance (GIRA) to share research on investment managers across the globe. The Alliance is expected to expand to a maximum of six members with additional ...

Platinum board restructure, Neilson steps down as CIO

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... years of experience. Platinum co-founder Andrew Clifford has been appointed as chief investment officer and will join the board of Platinum Asset Management as a director. He is currently the portfolio manager of the Platinum Asia Fund and manages a ...

Access Capital Advisers appoints non-executive directors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
Access Capital Advisers has appointed Mark Snape, Damian Stanley and Janet Torney to its board following the announced management buyout by Graham Matthews and Tom Snow. "We are very pleased to be able to appoint three such high quality individuals ...