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New take on old fee debate

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... it would be hard to nominate the exact percentage number before a planner can charge the fees. Ross Curulli, director at audit and financial planning group Hall Chadwick said, "So, they may say inflation plus six? I haven't seen or heard of anyone doing ...

Szondy joins Frontier

... shareholders, AustralianSuper. His current positions include director at Care Super and AustralianSuper, and chairman of the audit and risk committee at Military Super. He is also a former senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers with over 30 years experience ...

APRA audit adds to bottomline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... might think. Most are doing the right thing it just requires it to be formalised and documented. If an institution fails an audit, Alexandratos said, APRA could impose an enforceable undertaking on the business, which costs a lot of time and money to ...

Industry funds not holding up transfers: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has rejected criticism by some financial planners that industry super funds are taking too long to process superannuation transfers. AIST's chief executive officer, Fiona Reynolds, said the ...

CG not a priority for mid-caps

... rating, based on key governance factors such as board composition and independence, auditor independence, and having separate audit, remuneration and nomination committees in place. Most of these companies did not have adequate documentation in areas ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

... specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy Voting, has the potential ...

Toy story

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
Profits from China's export boom continue driving investment and fuelling its phenomenal economic growth, but China's toxic toy story has taken on a new development that will likely impact its lucrative Christmas export trade. Manufacturing remains ...

Sustainable audits need more structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... December 2008," Wallbank said. He said Australian corporations were concerned with the lack of reporting systems available to audit their energy, waste and water usage. The reaction prompted Jones Lang LaSalle to develop their Environmental Sustainability ...

MLC to brandish ISO 9001 logo

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... Global. MLC takes the debate on quality of advice to its backoffices when it signed a partnership with SAI Global to run an audit on the admin and operations of its 30 aligned practices using the guidelines set by 'The Financial Planning 9000 - Quality ...

ASIC to tighten debenture regulations

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a consultation paper proposing tighter regulation of the unlisted, unrated debenture market following the collapse of companies like Westpoint and ACR. The paper, unlisted, unrated ...