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Mercer makes key changes to investment team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Mercer has made a series of strategic appointments to its investment team to tackle individual consumers in the retirement savings markets. Russell Clarke will assume the role of chief investment officer in the Pacific region after his predecessor Andrew ...

ASIC to focus on analyst briefings

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Committee (ASIC) will be focusing on communications between the companies and the investment analysts that cover their stock as part of a surveillance program. ASIC will be working to raise awareness of the ...

Kenyon Partners to get new name by October

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Kenyon Partners is set to rename its business in October, the company's chief executive Paul Tynan has confirmed. Kenyon Partners has submitted four names to the Australian Securities and Investments Committee (ASIC), and will most likely change its ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Who's scared of Fed taper? Not Wall Street...not anymore, gauging from it's performance last week. The Dow ended 1.6% higher, the S&P 500 closed 1.5% on the plus and the Nasdaq turned in a positive 2.2%. All in a week that, on balance, gave you, I and ...

Financial planners opt for software homogeneity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
The financial planning software market is looking more and more like a one-horse race, according to research by Investment Trends. In its May 2013 Planner Technology Report, Investment Trends found that IRESS's platform XPLAN has increased its market ...

Adviser uses dead people to earn commission

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a Sydney financial adviser for using the names of dead and non-existent people to earn commissions on insurance applications. Pavan Vyas, an employee of Lionsgate Financial ...

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013

APRA accepts enforceable undertakings from five former Trio directors

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has accepted enforceable undertakings from former Trio Capital Limited (Trio) directors Cameron Anderson, Michael Anderson, Terrence Hallinan, Lorenzo Macolino and John Harte. Trio was formerly the ...

Last-minute Stronger Super reprieve averts "ludicrous situation"

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
While the majority of the Stronger Super reforms now apply, the government has deferred two of its last-minute measures, after many in the industry said it was impossible to comply. The first measure to be deferred is the product dashboard for MySuper ...

Fund chief calls for cap on super lump sum payments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
As more and more people approach retirement, there is a growing need to reform the way superannuation is paid out. Part of this may mean putting a cap on lump sum payments, according to MTAA Super chief executive Leeanne Turner. Adressing an audience ...