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Avoid financial speculation: Pontiff

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... sustainability of the enterprise." His comments are on chapter three of the encyclical titled "Fraternity, Economic Development and Civil Society", which was released last month. The economic shock caused by the GFC requires "a profoundly new way of ...

ASIC bans Firepower adviser

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... representative of Sagecorp Securities between December 2003 and December 2006. Ward can appeal ASIC's decision. ASIC started civil proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against entities associated with Firepower Holdings Group in July 2008. These ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... simply mobilise its huge workforce, the Gong'an county government in the Chinese province of Hubei last month ordered its civil servants to increase their smoking rates and has sent them tens of thousands of cigarette cartons to facilitate the plan. ...

James Hardie a case study on governance

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Yesterday's civil proceedings against seven former non-executive directors and three former executives of James Hardie is a "landmark decision" in Australian corporate governance, said ASIC. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... Mining and energy producer Santos release quarterly production reports. Justice Ian Gzell will deliver his judgment in the civil case in the NSW Supreme Court on action brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission against ten former ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...

Europe pension assets on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... in the report was an update on two of Europe's power funds - the Norway's Government Pension Fund - Global, and the Dutch civil service pension fund ABP. "The Norwegian petroleum fund that has been deployed as a financing fund to underwrite the future ...

Falkiner heads to Double Bay

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... the firm. He holds a Master of Accounting from Macquarie University, is CPA qualified and holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Aviation from the University of China. But the buck will not stop with Killick and Chen. Falkiner added that the group was ...

US investors receive $312m from Fair Fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... earnings projections. While in the settlement, Qwest neither admitted nor denied the SEC's allegations, they agreed to pay a civil penalty of $312 million that is being distributed to investors through the Fair Fund. In addition to this settlement with ...