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Nick Renton of Melbourne, Australia, is a consulting actuary, commercial arbitrator, company director and writer. He was born in 1931 and qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in 1957. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

He holds an Investment Adviser's Licence and qualifications as a commercial arbitrator. In 1975 he was elected a Fellow of the Securities Institute of Australia for his services to the industry.

After 15 years as Principal Officer of a life insurance company he became the first Executive Director of the Life Offices' Association of Australia from 1975 to 1979. He was Executive Director of the Life Insurance Federation of Australia from its formation in 1979 until 1986. In those capacities he acted as the official spokesman for the life insurance industry.

He is now an independent business consultant to leading stockbrokers, insurance companies, employer organisations, government agencies and others. He also serves on the boards of several financial institutions and is in great demand as a speaker at seminars and conferences.

He was the founder and first president of the Australian Shareholders' Association and has been Federal president of the Australian Society of Security Analysts and Victorian chairman of the Commercial Law Association of Australia.

Nick Renton has been published by 11 different publishers in Australia and the United States. He has written books about more different topics than any other Australian author.

His "Guide for Meetings and Organisations", published by the Law Book Company, has been widely used as a reference work on all aspects of chairmanship and the running of voluntary associations since it first appeared in 1961. It deals with many practical aspects of meetings procedure not covered in Joske and is now in a two volume eighth edition.

He is the author of over 60 published books - covering shares, property, managed investments, taxation, wills, good writing, public relations, the Internet and the Australian economy - as well as of numerous papers to professional bodies.

He has published nearly 600 articles in newspapers and financial journals in recent years. He has presented papers to conferences of linguists and contributed to a textbook on journalism.

As a free community service his large web site http://users.bigpond.net.au/renton/ also invites questions on meetings procedure, family trusts, style and investment terms.

He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004.

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Can US voters trust the processes for counting election votes?

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT COULD LEARN LESSONS FROM BUSINESS It is perhaps just as well that the United States is a sovereign nation and not a company listed on a recognised stock exchange. If any such company were to conduct an election for its board of directors using the methods used for the 2000 presidential ballot it would probably be laughed out of court by the market place. A company which dared suggest that a more accurate result would be obtained by disregarding large blocks of votes might also have its shares suspended for its pains. Leading companies in the United States have for ...

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