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Monash absolute return fund goes retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
The Monash Absolute Investment Fund will be available to retail investors, following the manager's partnership with a third party distribution firm. Winston Capital Partners will distribute Monash Investors' fund to investors seeking exposure to an ...

TAL appoints Macquarie and AMP vets

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
TAL has appointed a chief operating officer and chief general counsel. Justin Delaney joins TAL in the new COO role from Macquarie Bank's banking financial and services group, where he is currently head of wealth products and platforms. Before his current ...

FSC calls for 12% super by 2022

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane has called for a bipartisan commitment to 12% superannuation contributions by 2022 in her keynote speech to the FSC Annual Conference on the Gold Coast. "With average balances still low - at $70,000 ...

Findex life insurance goes commission-free

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Findex's Centric Wealth and Financial Index Wealth Accountants divisions will now only recommend commission-free life insurance policies. As per the recommendations provided by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), Financial Planning Association ...

Challenger appoints technical services head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
Challenger has appointed a new head of technical services to support advisers. Andrew Lowe was previously a principal consultant at Suncorp-owned Asteron Life and has also held technical positions at ANZ Wealth and ING. At Challenger, he will report ...

Super funds clash on board independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
Both retail and industry superannuation funds have mixed responses to a federal government proposal that would see an increase of independent directors on fund boards. BT Financial Group believes increasing the number of independent directors will create ...

Sherwin principal faces court for SMSF fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Sherwin Financial Planners principal, Bradley Thomas Sherwin, has faced court for causing self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees to lose $10 million. Sherwin was also chairman of failed business Wickham Securities and was banned from financial ...

Trio liquidators deny deregistering fraud fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
PPB, the liquidators assigned to the Astarra funds following the 2009 collapse of Trio Capital, have denied rumours they will deregister the Astarra Strategic Fund on June 17. The Astarra Strategic Fund was the primary vehicle, along with the ARP Growth ...

Asteron discusses alternative commission structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
The latest in a gamut of life insurers to adopt, or at least consider, hybrid commission structures comes from Suncorp-owned Asteron Life. Following recent announcements by Centrepoint Alliance, AMP, Fortnum, Findex and Centric Wealth, Asteron Life ...

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has given his backing to small business tax cuts made in the budget but has branded the so-called crack-down on multi-nationals "a cop out". "We welcome the small business package," he told the ABC's Leigh Sales. "We support ...