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Man Group Appoints Jonathan Sorrell As Finance Director – Quick …

6/18/2012 2:10 AM ET (RTTNews) – Man Group Plc (EMG.L: News ,MNGPY.PK: News ,MNGPF.PK: News ) said Kevin Hayes, who joined the company as finance director in 2007, is leaving the company to pursue other professional and personal interests. Jonathan Sorrell, currently Man Group’s head of Strategy and Corporate Finance, is taking over as finance [...]

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Judgment day

Aspirants seeking admission to law at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, have a range of options to specialise in. Vatsala Shrangi reports The way legal studies used to be perceived traditionally has changed in the last few years with the emergence of new areas of study within the discipline. The demand for legal services in [...]

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Move to punish parents of school truants

The Victorian government is beefing up the laws to punish parents who think it is OK not to send their kids to school. The Herald Sun says regional offices of the Education Department will be able to fine families without the need to go through the courts. The paper says students in Victoria miss almost [...]

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Worried Banks Pose Obstacle to Forming Financial Union

But for Europeans, there seems to be little appetite for such a compact right now. In fact, banks and their national regulators, anxious about the Greek elections and Spain’s hastily arranged bailout, are behaving more parochially than ever. That poses a threat to the interbank lending across borders that is crucial to maintaining liquidity — [...]

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Dan Dorfman, Market-Moving Financial Journalist, Dies at 80

Dan Dorfman, a journalist whose stock reports were once so market-moving that U.S. exchanges imposed regulations to limit the resulting price swings, has died at the age of 80. His death was announced in today’s New York Times. He died yesterday at New York Hospital, according to the death notice, which didn’t specify the cause. [...]

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Baruch College Finds Problems in a Business Program

A statement released by the college said that 15 students were “affected by alleged improprieties,” and that they would be allowed to “complete any work necessary if it is found they have not properly completed all of the requirements for their executive master’s degree.” According to The New York Post, Chris Koutsoutis, who had held [...]

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School truants' parents punished

The Victorian government is beefing up the laws to punish parents who think it is OK not to send their kids to school. The Herald Sun says regional offices of the Education Department will be able to fine families without the need to go through the courts. The paper says students in Victoria miss almost [...]

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Worried Banks Resist Fiscal Union

But on the ground in the euro zone, there seems little appetite for such a compact right now. In fact, banks and their national regulators, anxious about the Greek elections and Spain’s hastily arranged bailout, are behaving more parochially than ever. That poses a threat to the interbank lending across borders that is crucial to [...]

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OPINION: When alarm bells ring in corporate boardrooms

June 17–NEW DELHI (The Star/ANN) — Even as political Delhi remains preoccupied with next month’s presidential poll, warning signals are being sounded about the state of the national economy. The day the schedule for electing a successor to President Pratibha Patil was announced, a global credit ratings agency cautioned that India risked losing its investment [...]

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Dean of Law School expresses friendship and support for both …

In a note to the University of Virginia Alumni Association, on 15 June, Paul G. Mahoney, Dean of the School of Law, expressed continued friendship and support for President Sullivan and for Professor Doug Laycock, President Sullivan’s husband, whom he describes as “a deeply valued colleague,” explaining that the events of this past week “have [...]

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