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Treasury proposes mandatory governance principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Treasury is examining whether the ASX's corporate governance principles should extend to all 500 companies in the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index instead of the top 300 companies as part of a broader review of the audit industry. The Commonwealth Treasury's ...

AUSCOAL tags health fund and credit union

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
The $4.8 billion AUSCOAL Super is teaming up with a mining-focused health fund and credit union to provide expanded services to its members. AUSCOAL Super, which had $4.82 billion at the end of September according to Rainmaker Information, said it was ...

ASSET Super appoints union member to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
ASSET Super has appointed Unions NSW assistant secretary, Chris Christodoulou, to its board. Christodoulou was elected assistant secretary of Unions NSW in October 2008. He joined the union in 1981 after being elected Wollongong Sub-Branch Secretary ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
After all is said and done...more was said than done! Yes, you know what I'm referring to Virginia - the "big kahuna" of economic statistics that is the US non-farm payrolls report. Remember how we (note I use "we" when I'm mistaken and "I" to gloat ...

Women make up 30 pc of trustees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Days after Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young called for 40 per cent of board directors of Australia's Top 200 ASX listed companies to be women, research by Rainmaker released today on International Women's Day confirmed that not even not-for-profit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher with Wall Street posting modest gains in late afternoon trade amid negative home sales data and positive news on retail sales and unemployment benefits. At 0804 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Super has no competition, no innovation: ISN

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Market failure in superannuation is so profound that the most innovative player is the regulator, said David Whiteley, chief executive of the Industry Super Network. "What you expect to see in competitive markets is innovation. But in super you don't ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Wall Street remains on system standby. You can reason one way or the other until you're blue in the face but the fact remains that there wasn't anything new in last night's data releases. It's the same old, same old mix of negatives and positives. Besides ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open relatively flat as Wall Street edged into the red at its close as the Federal Reserve said the economy continues to grow at a slow pace. At 0825 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price ...

Ponzi scheme operator admits guilt

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Ponzi scheme operator Hazel Bernice Bucello yesterday pleaded guilty to six counts of deception which cost investors over $2.5 million, following an investigation by ASIC. Bucello was the sole director of loan and mortgage broking business Victorian ...