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Showing 81 - 90 of 105 results for "State governments"

Trustees urged to review power of attorney

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... make sure it's effective under the state law otherwise it can create problems." Colley said the federal and state governments are currently assessing the succession laws to find a remedy for this issue.

Van Eyk head of research resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... over 20 years' experience in investment markets, plus three years economic policy experience in Federal and State governments. Douglas has been van Eyk's investment strategist since 2004 and has led manager reviews of Australian equities, hybrids, structured ...

Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... Credit-rating agencies for giving the A-ok to these investment vehicles. Investors - institutional and retail, state governments, councils, etc. - for greedily accepting these credit raters' tick of approval without doing their own due diligence. John ...

Unlisted assets should be limited: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... arbitrage." Brogden's calls for unlisted investment limits and daily unit pricing to become standard coincide with State governments asking for super funds to increase their investment in national infrastructure.

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... public housing stock increase to 10 per cent of total housing by 2020, that public housing rents be increased so State Governments can actually afford build and buy more houses and maintain the housing stock they already have, and that the government ...

Defence housing to double pipeline to $3bn

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... portfolio is privately funded by retail investors. But the buck doesn't stop with low debt levels or the Federal and State Governments' support. Retail investors who hand over their keys to DHA deal with their administration staff - not their defence ...

FTSE war on terror

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... statement, the creation of the index has been devised "in response to exclusion requirements being adopted by US state governments, public and private organisations and investor demand." Nineteen US states, including New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts ...

Super gender gap narrows

... unit, has started producing fact sheets for women [on their super]. We're also looking at ways to work with state governments and the Australian government to reach women in hospitality or where there's traditionally more female workers." Michelle Ba ...

Govt to address underinsurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... Helen Troup, executive director at ING Life Risk, said insurers needed to work closely with both federal and state governments regarding the various stamp duty rules in each state and territory that complicate the insurance process. "Why should a consumer ...

Howard flags infrastructure fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... coming election. But it also came after months of public stoushes between the private sector and both Federal and State Governments, with Telstra threatening to sue over the tender process for building a fibre optic internet network. The Queensland State ...