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Equity Trustees calls for more from teeth behind RE reforms

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... that the GFC exposed areas of weakness including a lack of recognition of the complexity of the funds, the need for separation between a fund manager and the Responsible Entity to protect investors if the fund manager fails. "It is not only that the ...

Peering into the future

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... near future. "There must be some level of differentiation," he said, identifying the alpha-beta (and some cases omega) separation adopted by some funds as an example. Meanwhile, a major challenge identified by Scully for the industry was a shift from ...

DST's HiPortfolio goes live at ING Aus

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... with ING's licensed custodian, which also uses the technology. "We wanted to refine our business structure with the separation of our internal product-related operations from our investment-related activities. The goal was to improve the management of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... Depressing the market was Telecom's 2 per cent drop, amid calls for the telco to come clean over its plans for voluntary separation after it sought changes to its undertakings made to the Government.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
... also for May. In company news, DuluxGroup Ltd will list on the Australian Securities Exchange at 1100 AEST after its separation from chemicals maker Orica. White Energy Company Ltd, ECSI Ltd and Hazelwood Resources Ltd hold general meetings. On Friday ...

Finsia launches fin services credential

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... proposed regulatory reforms including a fiduciary duty for financial planners. "It will look at fiduciary duty and the separation between advice and products. We need to restore public confidence in the advice space," he said. Finsia has launched the ...

AMP upgrades insurance

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... firm's trauma policy has been redesigned to provide more flexible benefit options and choice of coverage, including the separation of full and partial benefits. These enhancements will be launched to advisers during a series of nationwide roadshows.

ING focuses on executive governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... last year as a result of the global financial crisis. The bank announced a "Back to Basics" program that outlined a separation between the banking and insurance businesses, which resulted in the parent company selling their Australian and New Zealand ...

No let up in ING asset sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... this pruning down of ING to its core is their "Back to Basics" program, announced last month, which resulted in the separation of its banking and insurance operations. Explaining the decision to split, Jan Hommen, ING chief executive officer, said the ...

AMP FP to move to fee-for-service by June 2010

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... financial planning business move to a fee-for-service model by June 2010. This means there would be explicit pricing and a separation of advice fees from AMP products. "For a consumer, it will mean that when they sit down to do business with an AMP financial ...