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Grange plays down Lehman connection for now

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... can assist our clients in capital raisings and underwriting and we will be in a position to handle the market's largest block trades and positions."

Symantec warns on tax time cybercrime

Leading protection software provider Symantec has urged consumers and businesses to be more vigilant around tax year end after the group's research found more sophisticated and heightened phishing attacks around 30 June. The term 'phishing' refers to ...

Tax cheats handed decade in jail

Three South Australians were sentenced to a total of 12 years imprisonment for committing a tax fraud amounting to $6.8 million. 62-year old Maxwell John Reid, 48-year old Edna Reid and 75-year old Graham Ernest Dasborough were found guilty of a total ...

Opposition mounts to Finsia education sale

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... financial services education and the lack of clarity around what the board intends to do post the divestment are reasons to block the proposal. "The major ground that we are opposed to it on is that we don't feel that Finsia has done enough due diligence ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... plan. The bean counters just don't get that." Somerville said. But Pilots may not have to worry, with these new kids on the block they will surely just vote with their feet.

A merger made in heaven

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... private company set up to safeguard Reuters' editorial independence, the Founders Share Company, has the voting power to block the merger if it sees fit. Regulators could also prove problematic, as Bloomberg and Thomson-Reuters together would control ...

A fist full of dollars

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... and prompt the Reserve Bank of Australia to add to its three interest-rate increases last year. This is just the starting block of the election campaign and there'll likely be another fist full of dollars waiting for voters down the track.

Vanguard puts case for passive-active allocation

... outperforms about two-thirds of active management," said Wicas. "Therefore the key is to use indexing as a central building block of a portfolio, and then try to find quality active managers to add alpha or outperformance." But finding active managers ...

Future Fund focuses on building blocks

Amid pressure from the industry to disclose how and when the Future Fund will deploy its near $50 billion assets, general manager Paul Costello stressed their main focus remains on building the right operational and investment infrastructure first. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... cent going to tax concessions, within the Higher education the dominant component was the so-called Performance related block, within the Public sector it was the CSIRO with a 44 per cent allocation and finally, within the Multisector category, about ...