Dr Tony Rumble Chief Executive Officer, Alpha Structured Investments (at time of writing) Tony Rumble is founder and CEO of Alpha Structured Investments and LPAC Online. Prior to Alpha and LPAC Online, Rumble was a partner in the Tax and Legal Services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and head of the firm's Finance and Treasury team. From 2002 to 2007, Rumble served as a member of the Panel of Experts of the Commonwealth Government's Board of Taxation. He joined ATAX in 1995 to teach and research on corporate and derivative finance taxes. Prior to ATAX he worked as an investment banker and in the late 1990s, acted for a number of leading warrant issuers including ANZ, BNP Paribas and Merrill Lynch. Rumble has also consulted to the OECD, Business Coalition for Tax Reform, Australian Tax Office, Australian Stock Exchange, and a number of peak industry bodies representing the financial services community.
TONY RUMBLE | THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010 The relevance of financial planners is under increasing scrutiny from investors and regulators. APRA's June 2009 paper Investment performance ranking of superannuation firms questions the value of traditional managed funds and pose important questions ... Read more PAGE: 1 |
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