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Chartwell dir Hoy jailed 13 yrs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
Failed Ponzi-scheme Chartwell Enterprises director, Graeme Hoy, sentenced to 13 years and nine months imprisonment after pleading guilty to 44 deception charges totalling almost $22 million. Hoy originally faced 148 counts of obtaining a financial advantage ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Future Fund chair back for a year, two new board members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
Future Fund chairman David Murray has signed on for a further 12 months at the sovereign wealth fund amid controversy over an alleged board split, it was announced yesterday. Treasurer Wayne Swan re-appointed Murray for a further year, saying in a press ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Perhaps 'twas the Japanese people's seeming stoicism in the face of what could be as close to an apocalypse as we could get that although concerned, there hasn't been any observable and widespread panic in the financial markets. Sure the Nikkei-225 ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Wall Street bobbed up and down along the zero line last night, seemingly lost as to which way to go. At the end of the bell in New York, it decided just to stay put with the S&P 500 and the Dow just a teeny-weeny bit (0.01 per cent) below the zero line. ...

Swan approves AMP/AXA merger

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Deputy prime minister and Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has approved of the proposed takeover of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings by AMP. Swan said he was satisfied the AMP acquisition of AXA APH was is in the national interest. The approval is, however, subject ...

Grass greener for local bourse without SGX

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
Shareholders and clients of the Australian Stock Exchange will be worse off on many counts if the deal with the Singapore Stock Exchange goes through, despite the concessions announced yesterday, experts warned. Professor Peter Swan from the School ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
"It's getting better all the time Better Better Better It's getting better all the time Better Better Better. Getting so much better all the time." - Beatles Less than a week ago, I wrote on this space, "it's just a matter of a few sleeps till we get ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
I don't know about you but it seems to me that everybody and his dog are now tuning in into the "Fiscal Deficit & Sovereign Debt Watch" show. Of course, there's nothing closer to our Australian hearts than the Gillard and Swan tandem disaster levy just ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011