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Whistleblower wanted

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The FPA is rethinking how it investigates financial planning firms in the wake of the Storm scandal and urges its members to speak out more against unprofessional or unethical behaviour in the industry. Speaking from Townsville, Queensland, FPA chief ...

Capping fees is not the answer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... actually quite interested in the bottom 100 funds. We don't know what the bottom 100 performing funds are and there's 500 funds, let's have all those results out there in the public domain," he said.

VFMC restructures investment teams

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... restructure is already underway, with Laurence Irlicht, previously the quantitative analysis investment director of VFMC, let go earlier this month. "We are reorganising the investment team...combining the quant team with the equities team," said Bone. ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... willing to unclench your fist. To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty ...

Instos target water usage

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
An alliance of 16 institutional and asset managers representing more than $2 trillion in assets including Souls Fund Management and Aviva Investors has sent a letter urging 100 major multinational company chief executives to carefully manage their water ...

Introducing life cycle insurance: REST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
REST Superannuation has revolutionised life insurance in super by introducing a "life cycle" approach to its death cover - breaking away from the traditional fixed cost or "$1 a week" insurance model. Almost one million active members of the $13 billion ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... in the form of easy monetary policy, tax cuts, extra efforts aimed at job creation and a stable currency. For all our sake, let us hope that the consumer of last resort succeeds -- and soon -- so it could continue to consume. If it fails, prepare for ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Simplistically rejecting the idea of temporarily cutting super contributions misses the big opportunity - putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
The Government might have rejected a call to let employers swap employer contributions for extra take-home wages as a short term fiscal stimulus, but it hasn't stopped them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian ...

Alaskan fund appoints HarborVest Partners

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
The $43 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporations (APFC) is not letting the bear market slow its private equity investments as the fund hires HarborVest Partners to manage a new PE portfolio. APFC last week appointed US investment specialist HarborVest ...