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Vanguard founder joins MLC board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... currently chair of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and a member of the Australian government's Financial Centre Task Force. He is also a director of National Corporate Investment Services Limited, National Asset Management Limited Plum Financial ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
Australian Wayne Byres has been appointed as the new secretary general of global banking standard-setting body, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Byres has been at the helm of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as executive ...

First State Super and Health Super merger official

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... premier super funds." To get to this point, there have been 19 working groups from different streams reporting to a joint task force of executives from both organisations. Starting today, there will be a transition period where trustees will assess the ...

FSS and Health Super merger on track

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... Super, said the merger was progressing smoothly with 19 working groups from different streams reporting to a joint task force of executives from both organisations. The teams are investigating all areas of the business from valuation to investments ...

FPA calls for award nominees

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is calling for nominations to recognise its long standing best and brightest. The FPA's Distinguished Service Awards recognise individuals that have contributed to the association and volunteered for work throughout ...

IOSCO warns against structured products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... were developed in cooperation with industry representatives following the recommendation made in the Report of the Task Force on the Subprime Crisis that was published in May 2008. The central focus of the review was how collective investment schemes ...

Back to the drawing board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... budding equity market rally was quickly replaced by fear of being left the 'greater fool' tag overnight after the US Auto Task Force rejected GM and Chrysler's restructuring plans that would have secured them a US$21.6 billion financing lifeline. GM ...

Trust appoints managing director

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... Stephen Jaques as an executive partner. He is also a member of the Business Council of Australia's Sustainable Growth Task Force and is a director of The Australian Outward Bound Foundation. This news comes as Trust announced ongoing operating earnings ...

Wickham wins actuary of the year

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... 2007 Convention for his paper entitled "It's time to abolish retirement". "As a member of the Institute's Tax Reform Task Force, Darren Wickham made a very significant contribution to our many submissions on superannuation tax reform during 2006. "And ...

New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... checking all fields of every transaction against the configured watch lists. In February this year the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) updated its methodology for assessing compliance. Changes were made for instance to the definition of a domestic ...