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Media Super to add corporate funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Industry superannuation fund Media Super has put together a team to develop its new consolidation strategy focused on attracting corporate funds with members who work in media. Media Super acting CEO Michael Rooney said the team has identified eight ...

Wealth Enhancers boosts team with AFL talent

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
Financial advice firm Wealth Enhancers is focusing on working out a financial plan for professional athletes and has employed ex-footballer Ben Warren as relationship manager within the Sports and Entertainment department. Warren is also a finance student ...

AFA outlines stance on conflicted remuneration

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has prepared a document, due for public release shortly, expressing its concerns over the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) consultation paper on conflicted remuneration. The AFA already ...

La Trobe scoops global awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Fund manager La Trobe Financial was awarded with two prizes at the International Alternative Investment Review (IAIR) Global Awards for its wealth management, brokerage and asset management, the fund manager announced. The Australian-based fund was ...

Two liquidators punished by ASIC

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Australia's corporate watchdog has taken action against two liquidators in separate cases. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) yesterday said that it had accepted an enforceable undertaking from Sydney liquidator Ian Struthers ...

SMSF adviser escapes jail time with suspended sentence

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
A former self-managed superannuation adviser was yesterday sentenced to a suspended year and a half in jail after he tricked clients into buying his own shares. Craig Dangar was yesterday sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court, to concurrent ...

Pepper acquires Spanish loan business Celeris

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Mortgage lender Pepper Group announced today an agreement to acquire Spanish consumer loan business Celeris. The acquisition includes a portfolio of approximately 164,000 performing consumer loans and a small non performing loan book, which represents ...

ASIC cancels national planning firm's license

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
National financial planning business AAA Financial Intelligence has had its license revoked by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after it had 'comprehensively and repeatedly' failed to comply with the Corporations Act 2001 ...

Four new SMSFs every hour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
The ATO has just released its latest self managed super fund bulletin and it confirms the stellar growth for the sector is continuing unabated. According to the report, at the end of December last year there were 496,207 SMSFs and 945,207 SMSF members ...

AMP launches new iPad app for advisers

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
AMP has launched an iPad application for its Financial Advice Network advisers that it said is integrated with their back-office systems. Today AMP said that it had launched Evolve, an iPad app featuring advice tools that are fully integrated with advisers' ...