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The "ber" months are coming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force figures for July. Wang Jiahua, executive vice chairman of China Mining Association, is scheduled to speak at the Melbourne Mining Club. In equities news, Rio Tinto and Telstra are ...

ASIC bans broker for deceptive conduct

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... person to be banned from providing financial services this year, and the 18th to receive a permanent ban. ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell said, 'ASIC will not tolerate this type of behaviour. Those who engage in misleading and deceptive conduct will ...

Gunns chair pleads guilty to insider trading

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
John Gay, the former chairman of forestry company Gunns Limited, has pleaded guilty to insider trading. In December 2009, Gay sold 3.4 million shares in Gunns when he had inside information that the company's was faring poorly. When the company's half-year ...

Sunsuper CEO steps down

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... internally and externally, but we aren't in a great rush. We want to make sure that we appoint another great CEO," Sunsuper chairman Graham Heilbronn told Financial Standard. Heilbronn said that Lally's decision didn't come as a surprise to Sunsuper. ...

Cormann commits to change in face of Labor moratorium

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... unintended errors. He also made a commitment to remove unnecessary red tape in superannuation. During the conference, FSC chairman and Schroders Australia chief executive Greg Cooper backed the Coalition's proposal and said it will deliver certainty ...

Regulator taking a "facilitative" approach to change

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
The Australia Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft reiterated his support to the financial services industry as it grapples with the implementation of regulatory changes, saying that the regulator would take a "facilitative" ...

FSC appoints new chairman

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) board has elected a new chairman who will take over the role on August 1. Schroders Australia chief executive Greg Cooper will replace Peter Maher, who is expected to retire as chairman of the FSC on July 31. "I ...

Balanced funds ill-suited for fixed income blow-up

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... strategies and absolute return bond strategies," Fletcher said. While markets have reacted negatively to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's recent comments that tapering may end early 2014, but Fletcher said that the Federal Reserve interest rate ...

Retirees unlikely to recover GFC losses: Cooper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... recent years does not help retirees whose accounts took a beating in the global financial crisis, according to Challenger chairman of retirement income Jeremy Cooper. Cooper, who chaired the 2010 Super System Review that led to the Stronger Super reforms ...