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IOOF set to complete SFGA acquisition in August

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
SFG Australia (SFGA) has made public an explanatory memorandum which outlines the details of the acquisition by IOOF Group and sets the implementation date for August 20, 2014. According to the document, the SFGA shareholders' scheme meeting is scheduled ...

Whitehelm Capital appoints chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
Whitehelm Capital has appointed Gary Withers from UK fund manager First State Investments as its chief executive officer. The appointment coincides with the merger of Challenger Limited's infrastructure division with Access Capital and the formal commencement ...

Women in Super scholarship open for applicants

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
The 2014 NSW Women in Super Scholarship is calling for applications from members wishing to attend one of two workshops. The first scholarship is the Professional Development Skills Program, and includes attendance of a choice of three workshops run ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Wall Street down... on Iraq... on escalating Middle East tensions... Sounds about quite right 'eh Virginia? After all, an escalation of conflict in the land of the sand dunes would lift the price of what's underneath those sand dunes - oil. This, in ...

IOOF appoints Perpetual exec to head Bridges

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
IOOF-owned Bridges Financial Services has appointed Nick Langton as its chief executive officer. Langton joins Bridges from Perpetual, where he was most recently general manager of private clients. During his time with Perpetual he was also acting group ...

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Irregularities amounting to more than $US5 billion ($A5.41 billion) have been found at China's sovereign wealth fund and two large state-owned banks, according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse into the opaque management of government-controlled ...

AIA Australia appoints CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
AIA Australia chief executive officer Peter Crewe is set to take up a new role based in Hong Kong, A and the insurer will have a new chief executive starting August 1, 2014. AIA Australia general manager of life insurance Damien Mu has been appointed ...

Research contradicts group risk claims crisis

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Price hikes widely anticipated in the super fund group risk market have not manifested in any more than a small handful of funds. That is the finding of the 2014 Rainmaker superannuation group insurance survey of 14,834 risk options offered by 206 super ...

UBS adviser banned from financial services industry

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Former UBS financial adviser was banned from the financial services industry for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. Sebastian Konjevic was a client adviser of UBS AG holding an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence from September 2005 ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
In May, Prime Minister Tony Abbott made good on his promise to be an 'infrastructure prime minister', dedicating billions of dollars to infrastructure development in the budget. But is this enough to get the bulldozers bulldozing? James Fernyhough takes ...