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Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Super funds have been urged to perform oil vulnerability assessment after blasts rocked Moamar Gaddafi's Tripoli compound this morning. As explosions and anti-aircraft fire rocked the Libyan capital, brent crude prices rose to US$114.86 per barrel. ...

AustralianSuper names former Hastings director as head of infra

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
AustralianSuper has created a new position for Jason Peasley, a former director at Hastings Fund Management. Peasley, who has more than 16 years of infrastructure investment experience, will join the superannuation giant as the Head of Infrastructure ...

Platforms bounce back after GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Platform funds under administration (FUA) by end December 2010 reached $397 billion, just below its pre-GFC $400 billion 2007 peak, meaning that as terrible as the GFC fallout was, it only set back Australia's wealth creation plans by two years. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
The Australian stock market is expected to open firmer on Tuesday, following a positive finish on Wall Street. At 0820 AEDT, the June share price index contract was 30 points higher at 4,694 points, on volume of 4,316 contracts. In economics news on ...

ASIC starts shadow shopping

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
The Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) will look at the "quality" of retirement financial advice available to consumers in a new shadow shopping exercise that will start this year. ASIC will begin shadow shopping research to judge ...

CareSuper offers online advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... modules also includes financial planning, money management, super, estate planning, income streams, money in retirement and 'a plan for life'. At the start of the month the ATO hosted a roundtable aimed at engaging younger Australians and their super ...

VTP mulls management change

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Listed investment company Van Eyk Three Pillars (VTP) plans to terminate its relationship with its external managers, van Eyk Research, Three pillars Portfolio Managers and VTP Management, subject to further board discussions. VTP formed an in-principle ...

Blue-collar workers shun advice: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
A study found that a segment of the Australian population is more likely to fall prey to dodgy financial products because it is 'not their nature' to seek professional financial advice. In a study conducted late last year, "Unemployed and struggling ...

Super on table for October tax review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Superannuation will be up for discussion at the Federal Government's October tax summit raising the spectre of further review, with industry figures asking for stability after a tumultuous few years. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the Australian ...

ISN urges members to seek intra-fund advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Industry super funds have started a national advertising campaign across major metropolitan newspapers to urge their members to seek financial advice from their fund. Umbrella group, Industry Super Network (ISN), said the awareness campaign would help ...