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Great Southern legal battle continues

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Macpherson + Kelley Lawyers are progressing with their legal campaign against Great Southern, filing with the Victorian Supreme Court further allegations through a class action against the collapsed agricultural investment scheme manager. Formerly a ...

Time to lift operational reserves: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
Funds need to ramp up their operational reserves, according to new research from Mercer. "As a minimum, we recommend that all funds should have an operational risk reserve equal to either 100 per cent of the fund's annual in-house operating costs, 50 ...

St.George launches 360 cash products

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
St.George is targeting financial advisers and broking firms looking for cash management vehicles with the launch of its 360 cash products. The new products, called the St.George 360 Cash Management Solution, are tailored for stockbroking firms and planners ...

ASIC targets five unregistered property ventures

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Melbourne company director Mark Ronald Letten has come under further ASIC scrutiny after the regulator moved to appoint receivers to an additional five unregistered property ventures associated with Letten. On Friday, 30 July, ASIC obtained orders relating ...

AIA signs credit card insurance deal with Citibank

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
AIA Australia has signed a five-year credit card insurance deal with Citibank - one of the biggest deals the insurer has scored since rebranding. The insurer joins MetLife Australia as a partner to Citibank's business that provides credit card insurance ...

AIA moves to integrate retail offering

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
AIA Australia has launched Platform Investor Protect - a new service that integrates the insurer's flagship retail product, Priority Protection, onto an investment platform for the first time. AIA said in a statement that clients would benefit by being ...

Advice goes direct to retail shopfronts

From super funds to banks and financial planning groups, the industry is divided between those that are pinning their future growth and consumer engagement strategy through walk-in financial advice shops and those that are sticking with a more traditional ...

SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
The government and large miners have negotiated a breakthrough compromise deal on the mining tax that not only keeps the broad structure of the tax in place but saves most of its benefits, especially the SG uplift. Driving the negotiations were Deputy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
The Australian market is expected to open lower following a weak session in the US. US stocks extended losses on Wednesday on American unemployment and eurozone debt concerns, while precious and base metals and oil were down. Asian markets suffered ...

APRA dictates investment option labels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
The prudential regulator has drawn a line in the sand on how super fund investment options are to be labelled and announced it will introduce risk-based criterion for how diversified investment options will in the future be categorised. The move kills ...