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Receivers appointed to Willmott Forests

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
The fate of around 8,000 investors' $400 million investments in MIS scheme provider Willmott Forests remains up in the air, as the firm's financiers - CBA and St.George - yesterday appointed receivers to the company. Bryan Webster, Mark Korda and Mark ...

AMP taps telecoms expert to lead Hillross

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
AMP Financial Services has appointed Singtel Optus director Hugh Humphrey as managing director of Hillross. Humphrey was previously director, mobile and convergence at Singtel Optus. Prior to that, he worked at Vodafone for six years in several senior ...

Legalsuper continues mandate restructure

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
Legalsuper lowers its total investment costs across several investment options following another round of mandate changes. The fund has terminated mandates with three fund managers totaling $62 million. This included a $38 million fixed interest mandate ...

AIA ranks as best insurance brand

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
American International Assurance (AIA) has beaten Prudential, Life Insurance corporation of India and Ping An Insurance to be the top insurance brand in Asia. According to a survey by TNS and Media, AIA has won the top spot in financial services (insurance ...

ATO appoints integrity adviser

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
The Australian Taxation Office has hired former Commonwealth director of public prosecutions, Damian Bugg AM QC, as its integrity adviser. Tax commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo made the announcement late last week, and Bugg will be charged with providing ...

The future of super: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
Super funds looking more like banks, the transformation of advice as intra-fund advice takes flight, and defined contribution (DC) plans having their own regulatory arm - these are some of the outlooks for super over the next 10 to 20 years, according ...

Asia to reap $75bn windfall

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
Australian investors are underweight equities by $75 billion - but when the rebalancing occurs in their portfolios, Asia - not Australia - will be the key beneficiary of the flows, said Asian investments stalwart, Kerry Series. Series, chief investment ...

AustralianSuper wades into politics

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
The chief of Australia's largest industry fund, AustralianSuper, is urging politicians, especially the independents, to rank superannuation adequacy high on the agenda as negotiations progress to form the next government. Ian Silk, chief executive of ...

StatewideSuper appoints JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
In what it calls one of the most important board decisions it will make this year, StatewideSuper has signed JANA for three years, terminating its previous asset consultant, Access Capital Advisers. The new contract began on August 9. The fund expects ...

Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
A Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) case hearing concluded that just because a product is within a planning group's approved products list (APL) doesn't mean they have fulfilled their fiduciary duty - prompting top researchers to talk about the role ...