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Superpartners adds risk expert to board

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
Superpartners has made a new appointment to its board of directors, bringing in risk and compliance expert, Merran Kelsall. The superannuation administrator said that Kelsall's passion for corporate governance, strategy and executive coaching made her ...

ASIC warns of $15,000 EOFY countdown

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
The countdown to the end of financial year (EOFY) is on and a financial services regulator is warning the industry that it better have its ducks in a row in three weeks time or face hefty fines. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

Tora improves electronic platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... compliance checks. Tora Compass clients include hedge funds, mutual funds and proprietary trading desks, who will be able to view audit trails and order history through the software. Chris Jenkins, managing director for sales and operations, Asia Pacific ...

Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Extended relief for compulsory pension fund draw-downs, encouragement for super funds to invest in infrastructure and a reiteration of the promise to increase the super guarantee to 12 per cent were functions of a budget that commentators labeled bland. ...

New Westpac chairman announced

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... company in the very best of hands". Mr Maxsted is a Non-executive Director of Westpac Banking Corporation. He chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Risk Management and Nominations Committees and is also Chairman of Transurban Group and a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... billion ($A929 million) in April. The European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank (ECB) began an audit of finances and reforms in Greece to determine whether it merits a critical new slice of funding from a bailout package agreed ...

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... Morningstar in 2010 - declined to comment. Auditors WHK Group and KPMG also failed to pick up discrepancies. KPMG signed an audit of Trio Capital's compliance plan for Astarra Strategic three weeks before regulators froze Trio's managed investment schemes ...

UK FSA fines false advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011

Planners prime legal targets for angry clients

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
Financial planners relying on research are sitting ducks for legal action in the wake of the Trio Capital superannuation fraud and need to protect themselves, a planner has said. In the case of the Trio Capital fraud, adviser Ross Tarrant's firm Tarrants ...

Trio victims turn on planners

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
Self-managed super fund trustees left without compensation from the Trio fraud debacle have turned on their former financial advisers. About 100 investors are suing defunct financial planning firm Tarrants Financial Consultants, reportedly on the grounds ...