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Corporate governance needs national voice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
Asia Pacific investors need to develop an organisation at a national level to effectively manage corporate governance issues, according to a corporate governance expert. Jamie Allen, secretary general at the Asian Corporate Governance Association in ...

Rio Tinto seeks super trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
Corporate super fund Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund is on the hunt for three new directors to join its trustee board. The Rio Tinto fund, which had $2.3 billion at the end of June last year, said three of its current member directors are completing ...

Push for redemption freeze lifts: PASL

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... the scheme it had invested in to place a halt on redemptions. Kessell said the decision to act was a matter of good corporate governance. "The Trustee of PASL places a high value on its fiduciary duties and on acting in the best interests of its members. ...

Prescriptive regulation is not the answer: Tanner

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... invasive or prescriptive, said Lindsay Tanner, minister for finance and deregulation. Speaking at the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) conference yesterday, Tanner outlined the challenge the government faced in updating financial services ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... saying in previous days, the equity markets just need a catalyst to catch its second wind. That all the concerns over corporate profits that have emerged over the past few weeks is a positive in itself -- because, they increase the probability of an ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... a broad rally on the back of a stronger financial sector. Banking stocks surged ahead of a busy week of economic and corporate earnings reports, after analyst Meredith Whitney upgraded her rating on Goldman Sachs. She also said during a television interview ...

BGL signs on to OneVue SMA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... Services. The white-labelled product will be known as SMSF Invest, and will be distributed by SMSF software provider BGL Corporate Solutions. BGL Financial Services director, Mark Schroeder, says BGLFS evaluated all managed account suppliers in the market ...

RE model should be reviewed: PIS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... Responsible Entity system - and whether it is sufficiently protecting investor interest - could be in order as more corporate collapses permeate the market. "We changed out system a number of years ago, where you had to have a trustee between the people ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... Street shares ended little changed on Wednesday with investors cautious about the economic outlook at the kickoff of the corporate earnings season. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 14.81 points, or 0.18 per cent, to settle at 8,178.41, after wobbling ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... Business Circle on "Managing AMP for short and long-term success". WHK Horwath is scheduled to release its annual survey of corporate governance in large and medium sized companies, and Qantas chairman Leigh Clifford addresses the Committee for Economic ...