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Former Treasury head to be Westpac chairman

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Westpac Banking Corporation's board of directors have appointed former Commonwealth Treasury head Ted Evans as chairman to replace Leon Davis, effective March 2007. In the interim Evans has been appointed deputy chairman to assist with a smooth transition. ...

Orix sells to Allco

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
Finance company Orix Australia has sold three of its five business divisions to Allco Finance Group. The business, equipment and commercial property finance operations will form part of the restructure of Allco Hybrid Investment Trust, which was announced ...

Allco hunts niche finance acquisitions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
Allco Finance Group will turn the Allco Hybrid Investment Trust into a listed company and use it as a vehicle for a move into a range of additional finance company activities covering agribusiness finance, lending for property development, mezzanine ...

BankWest and ABN AMRO win Best of the Best reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN, HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
BankWest has been awarded Money magazine's Best of the Best award for reverse mortgages sold by banks while ABN AMRO won the award for the best non-bank reverse mortgage. Macquarie and CommBank came in second and third for the banks while Bluestone ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
The release of the latest national accounts data shows that the seasonally adjusted final consumption expenditure measure of GDP grew by only 0.3 per cent over the last quarter to take the annual tally to 2.2 per cent. Positive or negative contributions ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
Australian retails sales data just released by the ABS shows that over the last month there was a 0.8 per cent increase on a seasonally adjusted basis following the revised increase of 0.3 per cent in September and a 0.2 increase in August. Western ...

Small cap returns abound for the skilled: Pengana

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
... said this means continued contact with company management and a lot of independent investigative research were required to equip a small cap manager with an investment advantage. "We've had 800 company meetings since we started [two years ago]& It's ...

Innovation is king: Russell

Innovative thinking has the power to increase investor returns without the extra risks, said Russell Investment Group's US based chief investment officer, Tom Hanly, at a Sydney conference today. Hanly said that fund managers have to constantly find ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
Insight into the CPI data of Wednesday this week arrived today with the publication by the ABS of producer price data. Final stage of production prices increased by 1 per cent over the quarter and 4 per cent compared to this time last year largely as ...

Equipsuper adds five to its team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
Equipsuper has announced five staff appointments to bolster its team and drive it towards further growth on the back of a strong 2006 so far. Equipsuper's internal investment team has made two key appointments with Suzanne Branton stepping into the ...