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Ex Future Fund exec to tap into aged care

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
Former head of Strategy at Future Fund QIC Tony Day has launched a consulting service focused on direct investment in aged care. Day's Scarce Capital has partnered with specialist consulting firm Round Tower Solutions to provide advice on long term ...

La Trobe launches SMSF loan product

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... Sydney and Melbourne. Opponents of limited recourse borrowing arrangements say SMSF investors are a contributor to the problem. La Trobe Financial's president and chief executive Greg O'Neill commented: "SMSFs have low exposure to residential property ...

Debt, deficit, now deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013

Life insurance faces worst conditions in decades

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
With shareholder returns in free fall, the life insurance industry is facing its worst conditions in decades, an Ernst & Young Australia (EY) analysis of the full year banking results found. The report noted how disability claims are rising "well beyond ...

Super funds 'fair game' for activist scrutiny

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
Super funds must prepare for a high level of activist scrutiny of their investments as a result of the increasing of portfolio disclosure requirements, according to Peter Lewis, director of Essential Media Communications (EMC). Under current plans ...

ASIC submits broad performance review to Senate inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has provided the Senate inquiry on the regulator's performance with an extensive document that broadly reviews its work. This is the third and largest ASIC submission to the Senate inquiry. ...

Prayin' for a taperin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013

Problem is weak credit law, not us: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) claimed that it had limited jurisdiction over the credit industry in its final submission to the Senate inquiry. In its final submission, ASIC focused on the reforms to the credit industry and ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... continues...and is not choked off by a premature rise in interest rates..." but "If, in the meantime, inflation became a problem, then that is something that could end the guidance."

AIST slams independent director quota

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... 'number one issue' for AIST. Speaking at the AIST Fund Governance Symposium in Melbourne, Garcia said he was not sure what problem the Coalition was trying to solve by insisting that fund boards comprise a third independent directors. While conceding ...