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AIA Australia launches life product upgrade

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... creating tangible customer benefits that have a real impact on those affected by accidents or illness. It's our responsibility to educate consumers around the need for insurance as it's still worryingly the case that many Australians feel life altering ...

RaboDirect launches Online SMSF

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... said Online SMSF will offer a new level of flexibility and control to trustees and the choice of administrative responsibility. "Investors can tailor their SMSF set up and administration to suit their needs. Putting the investor at the centre of their ...

AMP Capital scores 1 billion euro Irish mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... majority investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund, AMP will manage the asset portfolio and hold full responsibility for all investment decisions. AMP Capital Head of Infrastructure Europe, Boe Pahari, said the AMP team was already progressing ...

Shape up or ship out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... for painful austerity measures was to force them to make the hard choices themselves-in essence, to take personal responsibility for what happens to their country." "Democracy is alive and well, and Greeks are being called to rise to a national duty ...

ASIC annual report highlights industry trends

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... licensing including the development of new market integrity rules for competition in exchanges like Chi-X and assuming responsibility for day-to-day, real-time market supervision of the ASX and five other markets. Major changes affecting ASIC's work ...

DHS to takeover early super release on compassionate grounds

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... superannuation on specified compassionate grounds are still valid and will continue to be processed. "The transfer of responsibility to DHS does not affect eligibility in any way and the criteria for these applications remain the same," Jongen added. ...

FOFA reforms are a soft landing

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... direction." Ripoll said that conflicted remuneration was at the core of FOFA and that with professional status comes responsibility. "The Best Interest test seems so obvious, so clear but the reality is that there are lots of circumstances when it doesn't ...

ASIC releases equity market structure paper

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... efficient markets and we have been addressing issues arising from the automated trading environment since we assumed responsibility for market supervision in August 2010," said Belinda Gibson, ASIC deputy chairman. This second paper follows on from the ...

Antares makes global bond fund management appointment

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... fund manager. Nordio comes from BlackRock where he was director and portfolio manager for fixed interest, with responsibility for both domestic and global bonds. In his new role, Nordio will be responsible for expanding the boutique fund manager's global ...

APRA lays plans to improve super governance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... chairman, APRA. "The establishment of prudential standards in superannuation will not change the fact the primary responsibility for prudent management of superannuation funds rests with trustees." Submissions on the proposals in the discussion paper ...