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AMP positions senior AXA staff

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
Senior members of AXA management take less pronounced roles in the restructured AMP team following court approval of the $14 billion merger. Four AXA executives make the journey to AMP, following in the footsteps of chairman Rick Allert and director ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... 23 points lower at 4,767. In economics news on Tuesday, National Australia Bank issues its business survey for January, and Dun and Bradstreet releases its business expectations survey. In equities news, the case continues in the Federal Court in Sydney ...

Coalition introduces bill to abolish SG age limit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
The Coalition opposition is again testing its power on the floor of the hung parliament by introducing a bill to abolish the superannuation guarantee age limit. The government only wants to increase the SG age limit to 75 from its current level of 70 ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
As the world rebuilds its regulatory structures around the financial system, it needs to recognise that the system is an integrated network of ecosystems, not a set of independent machines. Speaking at yesterday's Melbourne Financial Services Symposium ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Productivity Commission has defied its critics and recommended Australia establish twin social no-fault insurance schemes in what is potentially the biggest recasting of the nation's health, welfare and insurance sectors in decades. The recommendations ...

SG war far from over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
The super fund campaign to increase inflows through a forced rise in compulsory contribution levels seems to be stalling with the AIST again maneuvered into coming out to defend the rise from another business lobby attack. "Employers had nothing to ...

FPA slams industry fund 'one track agenda'

ELISE BURGESS, ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has weighed in on the opt-in arguments advocated by sections of the trade union superannuation movement, calling the action "alarmist" and part of the industry funds "one track agenda". The FPA yesterday said ...

PE-Backed IPO exits top $10bn in 2011 YTD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Global private equity IPO exits hit $39 billion last year and is already $10 billion year to date 2011. Preqin, a research firm that specialises in the alternative investments sector, has just released a survey showing that there were 145 IPO exits ...

RBF appoints CIO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
RBF in Tasmania has announced the appointment of Dr Ian Lundy to the role of chief investment officer. The Retirement Benefit Fund chief executive officer Philip Mussared said this completes the recruitment of RBF's executive management team, begun ...

Deutsche bourse and NYSE to merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011