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Centro settlement approved

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
The Federal Court in Melbourne this morning approved the $200 million class-action settlement to more than 5000 Centro investors from Centro and its former auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Justice John Middleton said he found the settlement fair and ...

Trio: ASIC evidence insufficient to prosecute Flader

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
ASIC revealed yesterday it has insufficient evidence to prove controller of the Trio Group, Jack Flader, has breached Australian Law. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry into the collapse of Trio Capital ...

NSW universities face $4.3bn in super liabilities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... NSW universities to negotiate funding arrangements for superannuation liabilities with the Australian Government, after an audit of the state's 10 universities. The affected schemes are the State Superannuation Scheme, the State Authority Superannuation ...

APRA: Third line of defence in Trio-style fraud

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
While accepting that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority could have done more, deputy chairman Ross Jones has moved to distance the regulator from the Trio disaster, placing the blame with trustees and auditors. "APRA's prudential supervision ...

Direct super platform targets SMSF exodus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... the cost in addition to the convenience - you don't have to worry about your tax reporting, your valuations and an annual audit - there's no reason for them to leave," Webster said. The pay-off for the reduced cost and convenience for the member is that ...

Centro MCS proposes DPF wind-up

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
Centro MCS has informed unitholders of the proposed wind up and termination of its Centro Direct Property Fund. The move follows the redemption of more than 93% of units in the Direct Property Fund (DPF) after the Centro group restructured in December ...

Asgard launches new website for advisers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... interest offers, annual pension review letters, S290/personal tax deduction letters, investor reports, tax reports, annual audit reports and annual super pension reports. From July onwards, advisers will be able to use the tax report look-up tool to ...

Report questions infra investment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... underinvestment in NSW has highlighted the gap between inefficiencies in public sector funding and private sector finance levels. An audit report commissioned by the Premier Barry O'Farrell found NSW infrastructure spending had grown at an average of ...

ASIC appoints new commissioner

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... number of senior positions. He was involved in fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, financial services, accounting and audit and policy development at the commission during this time. Price is also a member of the Council of Financial Regulators, the ...

Praemium board restructure

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... of the financial year, having served on the board for the last four years. Most recently Bryson was chair of Praemium's audit, risk and compliance committee and was also chair of the risk committee. Praemium told the ASX that both Stammer and Bryson ...