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Hood Sweeney announces three new directors

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Hood Sweeney has announced the appointment of three new Directors to the highly successful South Australian professional services business. Hood Sweeney managing director, Matthew Rowe said the appointments of Keith Rutherford, Nicholas Edwards and ...

SMSF industry hits back on 'rort' claims

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Specialist SMSF group Dixon Advisory has rejected claims that self-managed super funds should be subject to new tax treatment, arguing that recent papers ignore tax concessions available to all superannuation members. Nerida Cole, managing director ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened weaker for the fourth successive day as concerns that Spain could seek a bail-out hit resource equities. At 1015 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 14.6 points, or 0.33 per cent, at 4,347.0 points ...

Banks take Bell Group case to High Court

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
The consortium of 20 banks involved in Australia's longest-running court case is seeking leave to appeal to the High Court. The banks, led by Westpac, lost an appeal in Western Australia's Supreme Court last month on a 2008 ruling that ordered them ...

Defensive investors may have traded risks

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Australian investors may have traded equity risk for interest rate risk, by switching into cash, said Doug Turek, managing director, Professional Wealth. "When people jump from growth to defensive, they place their savings in the hands of central banks," ...

CBA set to launch a $750 million hybrid offer

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is set to launch a new hybrid offer on the 12 of September, which is expected to raise $750 million. The CBA's hybrid offer, known as PERLS VI, will qualify as a Tier 1 Capital and will have an initial face value of ...

Plug the $1 trillion savings shortfall: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
New research has prompted the Financial Services Council (FSC) to call for longer working lives, to plug a massive retirement savings hole caused by people outliving life expectancies. Australians who live longer than current life expectancy will face ...

Passing of IMR bill to attract foreign investors: Shorten

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
Australia's financial services industry will benefit from a tax law amendment, which removes uncertainty that had been a barrier to overseas investment, said Bill Shorten, minister for financial services and superannuation. Amendments to the Investment ...

Wilson heads-up COIN

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
Former head of Asgard, Wayne Wilson will join tech and software provider Rubik as managing director - wealth with responsibility for the newly acquired COIN business. The appointment marks Rubik's expansion into the wealth space that culminated in last ...

TO Panel rejects HDF complaint

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
The Takeovers Panel has said it won't investigate a complaint over the sale of the Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund made by Australian Foundation Investment Company Limited - a unit holder in the infrastructure fund. The Hastings Diversified Utilities ...