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US S&P president replaced

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
Devon Sharma, president of Standard & Poor's since 2007, has been replaced in the role by chief operating officer of Citibank, Douglas Peterson, three weeks after Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. The McGraw-Hill Companies ...

Count Financial powers ahead with large profit, juicy dividend

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... its earnings per share growth to be 115% including the Countplus float, or 6% without. The results are subject to a final audit with annual results due on August 29. The company has declared a fully-franked dividend of 4c per share with the company going ...

Delaney retires amid MTAA board restructure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Michael Delaney is to step down as chief executive officer of MTAA Super in November as part of a major board restructure at the fund. A successor for Delaney, who has been in charge of MTAA since its inception in 1989, will be found later this year ...

Social media insurance wanted for share price protection

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... for social media knowledge is unbelievable and boards want to push this into the area of responsibility for the risk and audit committees," said Fraser. "That is how seriously they are taking it because they are liable and they are going to be the ones ...

Super software given extra accounting grunt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... features through a strategic partnership with a subsidiary of one of the world's biggest providers of tax, accounting and audit software. Class Financial, developer of Class Super, has allied itself with CCH Australia, part of global giant Wolters Kluwer ...

A minute to midnight sees super funds merge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
What difference can a midnight minute make to a merger? Do you combine your super funds at 12.01am on July 1? Or 11.59pm on June 30? Those vital 60 seconds were pondered during an afternoon talk by Graeme Russell, chief executive officer of First Super ...

UK tech firm gives spine to newly competitive Australian market

FIDESSA AND ASX RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... year through high-capacity fibre network ASX Net and will include smart features such as virtual markets and comprehensive audit trail and reporting capabilities. Fidessa will be setting up a local presence in Australia to support the initiative, it ...

Class Super adds actuarial SMSF service

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
Self managed super fund administration provider Class Super is using cloud computing to offer automated actuarial certificate data transfers for SMSF clients. Class Super, developed by Class Financial Systems, said it will provide real time access to ...

Landmark case against board duty failure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
ASIC's case could set a precedent with which all Australian board behaviour, responsibilities and financial obligations can be compared. The Federal Court has made a landmark decision in the case against eight directors and former executives of Centro ...

Australian Unity supporting advisers with appointment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... Cockle as BDM for Victoria and Tasmania. Prior to joining Australian Unity, Cockle was director and national sales manager at Audit Insurance Solutions. "He [Cockle] knows the boutique financial planning sector inside out and this will be especially ...