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Former Opes Prime director acquitted of dishonesty charges

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Former Opes Prime Stockbroking A director Julian Smith has been acquitted of dishonesty charges. He faced two charges of dishonestly breaching his duties as director of companies in the Opes Prime Group Limited group and pleaded not guilty to the charges. ...

Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
"Does this guy ever shut up?" Then Opposition leader, now Australia's 28th Prime Minister (let's dispense with the "elect", shall we?) Tony Abbott was portrayed as an arrogant aggressor when he blurted out these words on 21 August during his leadership ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... Madrid rose 0.53 per cent while Milan dropped 1.35 per cent amid renewed fears over the government's stability as former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi tries to avoid being expelled from parliament for his tax fraud conviction. The euro firmed to $US1.3217 ...

NAB hangs on to custody of UBS GAM

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... billion to State Street in March 2012, while BNP Paribas won custody of AvSuper the following month. Superannuation fund Prime Super, which has been with NAB since 2007, recently put out a tender, and expects to announce the winner within the next week. ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... landing hit the headlines.A "What Li likes Li gets" (this used to be "what Wen wants...", but I have to adapt to the new Prime Minister). This is because unlike western democracies, China is centrally-planned.A The central government dictates its plans ...

Prime targets investment in accounting firms

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
Prime Financial Group's growth plans centre on taking non-controlling equity stakes in accounting firms as well as recruiting them. The wealth management group has targeted growth beyond what it can achieve organically for the next financial year. Prime ...

Rudd promises to expand Super Clearing House

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said he will extend the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House service to businesses with fewer than 100 employees if he is re-elected. Currently the service is only open to businesses with 19 or fewer employees. ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to hit Australia's charities

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... dividends. Bowen said this move would reintroduce double taxation to Australia; something which he said was removed by former Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1987. "That to me is a pretty amazing policy development which reintroduces double taxation in ...

Prime Value AM gets SIV approval

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
Boutique Australian equities manager, Prime Value Asset Management, has become the latest fund house to cater for the foreign investors looking to gain residency in Australia via the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program. Its flagship Prime Value ...

Australia, a middle power between China and US

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... Australia, with an economy that increasingly gravitates towards Asia. As an anecdote, Pollack explained that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaks "extraordinary" Chinese, an ability that "gives him a degree of entrA(C)e into China that most world ...