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Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... projects should, "Telescope the development approval process for infrastructure projects, which would help reduce delays and scope creep. "[It should] provide clear guidance to parties so that they can act on the objective criteria that have been set ...

MGI buys Omega stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... the institutional market. "While many boutique managers are restricted in terms of their investment universe, we have the scope, capability and capacity to select from public market securities trading from more than 30 nations worldwide, ranging from ...

Super funds critical on alt investment regulation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... licensing system was implemented in 2004. "This is a positive outcome from the RSE licensing regime, but there is still scope for improvement," he said. The survey recommends super funds seek an independent annual assessment of the board's performance ...

Governance before crisis

... superannuation trustees fail to implement good governance safety nets. Rafferty said that trustees have the capacity to scope the issues that are now affecting industry in time before a financial collapse strikes funds' bottom lines. But Rafferty stressed ...

Bear Stearns a 'reasonable risk': JPMorgan

... 2008 will be particularly challenging given Bear Stearns' scale of fixed income business and more limited international scope. Meanwhile, London-based newspaper The Financial Times has reported that JPMorgan is expected to incur a US$6 billion one-off ...

Australia dubbed the educational hub

... only from the Kaplan name, he said, but also by the new group's scale. "If know that for some people, this talk of size and scope provokes the response, 'Now that you're big, don't get fat, lazy and complacent.' We don't intend to," he said. Michelle ...

Dinosaur fund taxes should be scrapped: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
Australia's managed funds industry may soon undergo a major tax revamp as Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen calls for the Board of Taxation to review taxation arrangements applying to the sector. Minister Bowen told an Investment and Financial Services ...

Q Invest targets professionals

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... Danaher. "This service will give investors a very proactive ongoing relationship and the ability to talk with an adviser over a scope of different things," said Trudy Heins, manager of Q Invest private clients service. "We'll work with their solicitors ...

Bullen heads MacarthurCook real estate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... Bullen's new position will see him manage the firm's existing real estate portfolio in Australia, Singapore and Japan and scope opportunities in new markets. According to MacarthurCook managing director, Craig Dunstan: "Russell brings to the group a ...

Asia Pac equities in the red

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... Stuart James, associated director of Aberdeen asset management Australia. "Having said that, robust domestic demand and the scope for fiscal stimulus, given the relative strength on the region's economies, mean Asia is generally better positioned to ...