Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 91 - 100 of 329 results for Linda Hausken

Adviser faces court on 22 charges

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
Former WealthSure financial adviser, Brian William Veitch has appeared in court on 22 fraud charges, after he allegedly fraudulently transferred funds totalling $500,000 from seven client accounts without their knowledge or authority. These charges ...

Businesses in for tougher times: Debt collector

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Business conditions for Australian companies are much worse than currently being reported with tougher times ahead, warns debt collector Prushka. Prushka, one of Australia's largest debt collectors, has seen a worrying increase in the proportion of ...

Denison: Adviser's action crucial to investment success

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Australian advisers play a crucial role in holding fund managers accountable to their investors, and in addressing poor investment performance, according to Denison Funds Management. Currently many investors are unhappy with poorly performing investment ...

Money Solutions partners with ING DIRECT

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Money Solutions has been chosen as ING DIRECT's partner to deliver phone-based advice service in relation to its Living Super product that was launched last week. ING DIRECT's new product, Living Super, is the first balanced option available to all ...

Sunsuper creates new product division

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
Sunsuper has created a new product division and appointed Andrew Nicholson to the executive role of general manager, product to its Brisbane office. The newly created division will look after a range of super, insurance, financial advice and retirement ...

Altius: Role of fixed interest hazy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
Australian investors do not fully understand the role and benefits of fixed interest in a portfolio because of the statistical and complex nature of this asset class, according to an industry expert. There is increasing evidence that many investors ...

Omega appoints inv research analyst

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
Specialist investment manager, Omega Global Investors has boosted its research capability with the appointment of Andrew Cleeland as an investment research analyst to its Melbourne office. Cleeland joins Omega from Austock Securities where he for five ...

Adelaide adviser facing sentence

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
Former Adelaide adviser Robert Owen Bean has appeared in court on 52 charges of engaging in dishonest conduct including accusations of misappropriating over $3.1 million of client funds. In May 2011, the corporate watchdog permanently banned Bean from ...

Blackstone appoints senior adviser

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
Blackstone has named James Carnegie as senior adviser to the firm, based in Sydney. Prior to joining Blackstone, Carnegie was a partner with Archer Capital, a domestic private equity firm. In his new role, Carnegie will assume responsibility for the ...

IAG urges Asia focus

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
Australian companies need to seriously start looking at investing in Asia or risk falling further behind the eight ball, warns Mike Wilkins, managing director at IAG. By the year 2020, Wilkins said, middle class consumption in Asia - excluding Japan ...