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Bonnie and Clyde team caught for fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... dishonestly" by encouraging them to roll their superannuation savings into SMSFs established by the company. It was a move that let him gain access to the funds through a hidden power of attorney clause. The clause, contained in one of the documents ...

Take your pick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... will have to keep on printing money to buy Treasuries to keep the rates down - not good for America's credit rating - or just let yields ride higher - not good for mortgage rates and by extension, the housing market. The NAR report also has something ...

ESSSuper closes Cash Plus option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The $14 billion Emergency Services & State Super has closed the doors of its cash plus strategy six months after the introduction of its pure cash option. According to a statement on the ESSSuper website, the fund closed its cash plus option to new ...

Perpetual proposes caps on exec and board pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Perpetual has taken extra steps to preserve its balance sheet and cut costs, including a dividend reinvestment plan announced this morning and a move towards lower bonus payments and caps on executive and board remuneration. The 'surprise' announcements ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Just as leading Unions have stepped up their battle against lifting the retirement age, the government has been forced to dismiss their claims for special rules for manual workers labelling them unfair. The Australian newspaper today reported that the ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Waiter, there's a fly in my soup. Financial markets stopped enjoying the tasty aroma of recovery in their soups last night after Standard & Poor's warned that it might downgrade the United Kingdom's AAA credit rating because of its widening budget deficit ...

Cbus CEO competes for UN PRI seat

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... industry. I want to take our experience and what we've learned to the PRI board and then bring the information back home and let everyone know what's happening internationally," said Atkin. "The PRI is at an interesting phase where people are moving ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Suncorp Wealth Management has overhauled its communication strategy to help members better understand super, starting with a new communications guide for internal staff and a new look and feel to at least 100 types of letters it sends to members each ...

Amnesty pushes for fund review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Fund managers may want to review investments in PetroChina, Sinopec, Petronas and the Oil and National Gas Corporation (ONGC) after Amnesty International linked the companies to providing revenue to the Sudanese government. This warning comes after ...

Tonight's the night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... very few who argued against these predictions back then. Last May 2008, everything looked hunky dory. Not a cloud in sight. Let's party! Until the global financial crisis. What was 2.75 per cent growth forecast only a year ago would now be changed - ...