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Australia ranks third in Global Pensions

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
The 2012 Mercer Global Pension Index has shown that Australia has come in third place out of 18 countries, beating the likes of Switzerland, Canada and the UK. The index which covers over half of the world's population has found that Australia's retirement ...

Accountants to deliver advice under new regime

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
Approximately 75% of accountants who took part in an MLC survey plans to deliver advice to their clients under the new proposed licensing regime. Out of the 200 accountants MLC surveyed at its Accountant Seminar Series last week, 67% would like to deliver ...

AFA names finalists for the Adviser of the Year Award

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has named the six finalists of the association's prestigious 2012 AFA Adviser of the Year Award. In a year that sees the award celebrate its 10th anniversary, female advisers are more strongly represented ...

AFA names Female Excellence in Advice finalists

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), in conjunction with TAL Life, has named the six finalist of this year's 2012 Female Excellence in Advice Award. The Award is about encouraging more women to consider financial advice as a career, to champion ...

ASIC champion hybrid name change

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
Australian Securities & Investments Commission is pushing for the industry to use the label 'capital note' instead of 'hybrid securities', as part of its ongoing focus on misleading and deceptive advertising. Hybrids are not easy to define, but put ...

REST Super to invest in transport infra

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
REST Industry Super and Cintra Infrastructures, have entered into an agreement to selectively invest and operate toll-road projects in Australia. As a result of the agreement, REST said its collaboration with Cintra will initially identify and develop ...

Australian Philanthropic appoints new CEO

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Australian Philanthropic Services (APS), an Australian-based non-profit organisation, today announced the appointment of Antonia Ruffell to the role of chief executive officer. "Antonia has over 15 years' experience in leadership, fundraising, business ...

Six year ban for mortgage broker

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Sydney-based mortgage broker Athol Halvorsen, has been banned from providing financial services for six years after ASIC found he had engaged in false and misleading conduct. ASIC found that while Halvorsen worked for Sydney Mortgage Market, from 2005 ...

VFMC names new chief

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Victorian Funds Management has appointed Warren Lee as a chief executive officer, effective next Monday. Lee joins VFMC after more than 15 years with AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited where he held the role as a chief executive officer of Australia ...

Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann is calling on Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten to come clean to Australians that they have to pay $30 billion in increased super taxes to assist the Labor government to pay for its $120 billion budget black ...