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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 ...

Liechtenstein blocks AML

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... with a lucrative investment "sanctuary" on a silver platter. The principality was blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force as part of the FATF's review of non-cooperative countries and territories in 2000, but was struck off the list in 2001. "By ...

Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
The Rudd Labor Government has called on senior government officials to form the Financial Services Working Group, aimed at dealing with financial services advice and disclosure issues. The Financial Services Working Group includes senior officers from ...

World bank names new chief economist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... retired to become director of the Paris School of Economics. He previously held roles on the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger, the Working Group, the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank, the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee ...

SEQUAL to boost reach through education

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... Australia), as well as inaugural chair of the Council of Mortgage Lenders Group, a member of the Finsia Mortgage Industry Task Force. He also designed and delivered the SEQUAL-accredited 'Understanding Equity Release Plans' course for the MFAA. As part ...

Carbon trading gets competitive hedge

... equity and even private equity. In Australia, the industry is still waiting for the results of the Federal Government's task force exploring the possibility of a national carbon trading scheme. New Zealand is a few steps ahead with the New Zealand Stock ...

China funds under pressure?

... enough, is that China is attracting more money than it can manage and the country's State Council has set up a special task force to hunt down illegal share offerings and other banned activities. The running strategy is to manage the country's unprecedented ...