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Advisers must fight for the future, not the past: AFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The fight over commissions on investment products and superannuation is over. Advisers must stop debating over them and switch their focus to influencing their future. Opening the 2010 AFA annual conference in front of a packed auditorium with almost ...

Fiducian boosts SMSF services

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
Fiducian Portfolio Services Limited helps advisers slash the time it takes to administer SMSF trust deeds following a deal struck with online deed administrator SuperCentral. Under the agreement, the SuperCentral trust deed update service will enable ...

SimCorp launches "office of the future"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... rebalancing and order generation, right though to trade execution. The technology leverages SimCorp Dimension's existing audit trail functionality and incorporates such features as broad asset class coverage, theoretical valuation models and the decomposition ...

ASIC recovers $24m for Westpoint victims

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
Westpoint investors in ASIC's class against Glenhurst Corporation will receive their share of $24.5 million recovered to date by the corporate regulator. The Glenhurst settlement, worth $2.5 million, is one of six reached by ASIC on behalf of investors ...

SMSF advisers back FOFA call to upskill

SPAA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
More than 90 per cent of SMSF advisers support raising competency levels through the proposed Future of Financial Advice Reforms - while 6 out of 10 advisers agree SMSF auditors should be registered with ASIC, new research shows. According to the 2010 ...

StatewideSuper appoints new board member

STATEWIDE SUPER ANNOUNCEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... Financial Management Services Limited, a subsidiary of StatewideSuper, last month and is also a member of StatewideSuper's Audit, Governance and Risk Management Committee. StatewideSuper Chairman Nick Begakis said Steel's understanding of the issues ...

CommInsure and Zurich win insurance awards

MEDIA RELEASES  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
CommInsure has won 'Life Insurance Company of the Year' award while Zurich Financial Services Australia won the 'Treasurer's Award for Good Governance and Practice' at the 2010 Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards. The awards, in its ...

Trustees warned as APRA toughens guidances

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
With the ink hardly dry on the Cooper Report's recommendations for a Trustee Code of Practice, the prudential regulator APRA has released revised trustee guidances on capital structures, risk management, resources adequacy and trustee fitness. Following ...

Art lobby wins fight to keep SMSFs art-friendly

SPAA MEDIA STATEMENT  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
The Federal Government has endorsed the Cooper Review's key MySuper reforms but in a major victory for the art industry and self-managed super fund trustees, it said that it won't adopt the move to ban SMSFs from investing in 'collectables'. The leading ...

Australian ESG expert claims world-first

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... certification will help lift the standards, transparency and consistency of ESG research around the world. For example, under the audit, any of CAER's clients are guaranteed that the method and quality of ESG research that CAER does is consistent across ...