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Govt flags August for market supervision transfer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... preparations have been made and systems are in place to ensure as smooth a handover as possible." The government approved, in principle, the market licence application of Chi-X Australia in March this year. He said market competition would provide lower ...

Solaris hires ex-Suncorp ESG manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
Solaris Investment Management has appointed former Suncorp portfolio specialist, Lisa Domagala, to focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Domagala has previously worked at McIntosh Hamson Hoare Govett, now Merrill Lynch, and also ...

Global investors push for corruption info

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
A coalition of international fund managers, pension funds and super funds representing more than $1.7 trillion have written to 21 major companies urging them to improve their disclosure of bribery and corruption risks. The investors asked companies ...

Tasplan invests $21m in hedge fund strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
Tasplan has invested $21 million investment in AQR Capital Management's Wholesale DELTA fund. The mandate takes the local fund's assets under management to approximately $50 million. The AQR Wholesale DELTA fund was launched in September last year. ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... simplifying the country's tax system. All well and good...no one will argue about applying the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle, especially when it comes to tax. But not so fast. For the Henry Review is just that - a review. Like reading fiction ...

ASX companies fall short on corruption disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Australian listed companies are not properly addressing potential corruption and bribery issues of their employees, a study revealed, amid one of Australia's biggest mining company's being forced to defend itself against corruption allegations. CAER ...

HOSTPLUS and ME drop Melbourne Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
HOSTPLUS and ME Bank have terminated their sponsorships with Melbourne Storm in the wake of the NRL scandal. David Elia, chief executive at HOSTPLUS, said the relationship with Melbourne Storm is untenable and has terminated its sponsorship immediately. ...

The upside of a downside fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... is 8.6 per cent or $2,150 in exchange for a $25,000 notional exposure in the market. It builds on the same underlying principle that proved popular with Instreet's Link ASX200, Asia 50 and ARC product series. Fresh off the oven, Lonsec Research gives ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... implementation of the SSR MySuper proposal will require not just new regulations but a fundamental redesign of the trustee law principle on which the Superannuation Industry Supervision (SIS) Act is built. Michael Vrisakis, partner at Freehills lawyers ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Boston-based Acadian Asset Management has added another quantitative measure to its investment process to gauge corporate governance risk within listed companies. The 'management behaviour' measurement allows the team to evaluate the quality of a company's ...