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CBA on Storm damage control

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has suspended repayments for Storm Financial loan holders to the end of August and said it will pay for the cost of legal and financial advice for its affected customers. Ralph Norris, chief executive at Commonwealth ...

IMF Australia targets Great Southern

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
IMF Australia has agreed to fund legal proceedings on behalf of Great Southern Cattle projects against companies and various directors within the agribusiness fund manager. The planned litigation will be a group action in the Supreme Court of Western ...

Industry bodies back IFSA charter

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... reforms. The charter outlines how fees for financial advice in super will only be charged through either a member advice fee or plan service fee. The Financial Planning Association said that the changes foreshadowed in this paper would align well with ...

Bennelong hires Scully for compliance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
Bennelong Funds Management appointed former ING Investment Management Asia Pacific chief executive and managing director Paul Scully to the firm's compliance committee. Prior to working at ING Investment Management Asia Pacific, Scully worked at Mercantile ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly lower after losses on Wall Street and in Europe, although commodity prices rose after a sell-off earlier in the week. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract ...

IFSA launches superannuation Charter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... sweeping reforms on how advisers should be paid and to demonstrate their services are unbiased. "Commencing in July 2010 we plan a fresh approach to the payment for financial advice in superannuation. This will boost consumer confidence in superannuation ...

T. Rowe Price to grow retail presence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Having won investment mandates from major super funds, long running US fund manager T. Rowe Price plans to expand its services to retail investors. The Baltimore-based fund manager, which has just under $3 billion in funds under management in Australia ...

Singapore pushes for online economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... the public and private sectors into online services, effectively turning the country into an "online economy". "The iN2015 plan, laid out in 2006, outlines a roadmap for the decade-long process of improving Singaporeans' quality of life by employing ...

HK investors wary of local market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Hong Kong based investors still remain bearish on how the local market will perform for the rest of the year after the J.P. Morgan Investor Confidence Index dipped lower in the March quarter. The index fell 5 points to 95 points in the first quarter ...

CHOICE wants commissions banned

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Consumer body CHOICE launched a new campaign this month calling for a ban on commission-based remuneration and other conflicted remuneration to advisers. Titled 'Financial advice: is it in your interest?' campaign, the association is attacking what ...