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AIST lashes out at Coalition

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... Trustees has hit out at a Federal Opposition decision not to support the Gillard Government's low income super rebate. Yesterday the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), which represents not-for-profit super funds, said that the decision ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... town showed positive performances at the end of the first month of the New Year. Time to be fearful? These, despite yesterday's news that the US economy contracted at annualised rate of 0.1% in the fourth quarter. That's bad news isn't it? The US is ...

NSW State Super appoints investment head

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... team which managers over $35.8 billion of assets on behalf of members and the NSW Government. Beginning in his new role yesterday, O'Brien previously oversaw $110 billion in funds management as chief investment officer at AMP Capital Investors. His responsibilities ...

New dealer group boss for IOOF

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... financial planning group Plan B, listed wealth Manager IOOF has unveiled Mick Farrell as its new head of dealerships. Yesterday IOOF said Farrell would start as general manager of dealerships from 4 February this year. Farrell has been contracted to ...

TAL's Affinia hires for growth plans

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... insurance group TAL's new risk business Affinia has hired three regional managers to spearhead growth plans, it said yesterday. Affinia said that Jonathon Nguyen, Peter Nielsen and Paul Gaffney would become regional managers, and that each had been hired ...

Funds unlikely to follow HOSTPLUS to PST

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... managed super fund [to gain investment flexibility]." A spokesperson for Australia's largest pension fund AustralianSuper yesterday said that while it supported innovation in the industry it did not have plans to allow self managed super funds to access ...

CBUS to review products to tempt SMSFs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... moving into retirement," he said. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Pauline Vamos said yesterday that while other funds might not do the same as HOSTPLUS, they were all looking at ways to provide "individually managed" ...

SPAA joins UN group

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... become the first Australian financial services group to join a United Nations independent financial advice convention. Yesterday the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) said it had joined the United Nations Convention of Independent Financial ...

Falling interest rates undermine seniors' confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... market has climbed some 11% since the middle of November off the back of improving confidence in the global economy. Yesterday Clime Asset Management's chief investment officer John Abernathy told Financial Standard that the rise in sentiment in 2013 ...

Former mortgage broker convicted

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
A former NSW-based mortgage broker was yesterday convicted of 10 offences under the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (National Credit Act). In September 2012 Daniel Nguyen, of Panania, pleaded guilty to 10 offences including providing false ...