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Planners embrace 8IP Asia Pac Partners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... in the Fund from high net worth investors. Offering the Fund under a PDS makes it simpler for these investors to come on board," said Rick Steele, chief executive, 8IP. "We've also had a lot of interest from dealer groups and financial planning practices ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... Heffernan said. Financial stocks were up 0.58 per cent. Making news on Wednesday, Telstra said chief financial officer and board member John Stanhope would retire at the end of 2011 after more than four decades at the company. Telstra was down one cent ...

Just do it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... But as with the case for America over the past few months, there's again bad news mixed in with the good. The Conference Board reported that consumer confidence dropped to 58.5 in June - the lowest in seven months and a bigger drop than markets were ...

Landmark case against board duty failure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
ASIC's case could set a precedent with which all Australian board behaviour, responsibilities and financial obligations can be compared. The Federal Court has made a landmark decision in the case against eight directors and former executives of Centro ...

DKN agrees to support IOOF takeover

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... chief executive of DKN Group, said the offer would come before a shareholder vote in September. "It was at a point where the board needed to put it in the hands of shareholders to make a decision," he said. Butterworth said there was likely to be more ...

Mentoring opportunity for women in finance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
A mentoring program has been launched for women working in finance. The program is designed to help attract more women to the industry and tackle issues surrounding the shortage of women on company boards and in senior roles. Women in Finance (WIF) ...

Trafford-Walker takes new role after securing CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... someone who is joint managing director and head of consulting responsibilities had become too big for one person so the board decided to split the investment consulting function from the business management function," said Trafford-Walker. Frontier Investment ...

UniSuper freshens up board and investment committee

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
UniSuper has a new chairman in place and has also re-jigged its board and investment committee with a new appointment on each. Chris Cuffe took the reins as chairman of the board last week, replacing the outgoing Elizabeth Bryan, who has received high ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... points, on volume of 3,478 contracts. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia publishes the minutes of the board's June monetary policy meeting at 1130 AEST. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases international merchandise imports ...

Plum adds super lawyer to board

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... Superannuation Committee, Peggy Haines, has joined the Plum Superannuation Fund and the Plum Pooled Superannuation Trust as a board trustee. Haines, a senior superannuation and financial services lawyer, was a consultant for the Cooper Review and a member ...