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ASF appoints exec director

Australia's representative body for the securitisation industry, the Australian Securitisation Forum (ASF), has appointed Greg Medcraft as executive director. Prior to his appointment, Medcraft was the managing director and global head of securitisation ...

Forum 'gets real' on ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Sustainability magazine, Ethical Investor, is holding a one-day forum to ensure investment managers understand how to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment processes. Michael Walsh, Ethical Investor executive ...

Vietnam the next LPT hotspot

While Australia and Singapore continue to lead the stakes in global listed property trusts, the surprise star in a new survey is Vietnam, jumping from the sixth spot to third in predicted property market growth. The findings came from the Asia Pacific ...

Super structure needs fixing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Industry Super Network executive director David Whiteley said any decision the Government takes in the upcoming May budget to increase superannuation contributions needs to be grounded in structural reforms to increase the "efficiency and fairness" ...

PE must work on PR

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
As more institutions invest in alternative assets such as private equity, the sector players have to re-think how they communicate their message under the more intense public spotlight. At a Private Equity & Venture Capital Forum panel discussion, private ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today following the lead from Wall Street, which dropped more than one per cent overnight. Base metals mostly were down in London. At 0700 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange the March share price ...

Wikis may be working for Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
The arrival of Gail Kelly at the helm of Westpac may accelerate the bank's adoption of "Web 2.0" tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks, allowing staff to share information freely and collaborate online. The bank already has around 1000 user ...

India dominates global IPO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
The volatile Indian stock market may have been hit harder than stock markets in the developed world during January but it hasn't frightened companies that believe in its upside, judging on latest global IPO data. The Indian market wide NIFTY index from ...

Something interesting about rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
There may be a debate emerging about whether we really do have an inflation problem, but inflation is a hugely significant problem that should never go unchecked. Prompting the discussion is that remedies to attack it are seen by some commentators as ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Sub-prime was the American Dialect Society's 2007 word of the year but 2008's might be stagflation or even agflation, leading economists told today's Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. "There is a recession in US housing and it will get worse and even ...