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Planners hit by ratings pullout

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
S&P's decision to withdraw its application for a retail AFSL, effectively pulling its credit ratings from the retail market, could increase retail investors' exposure to risk and lead to a tightening of planners' approved product lists. S&P announced ...

FPA calls for whistleblowers and more planner education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has set up a whistleblowing service and has flagged tougher educational requirements for people who want to become financial planners. Julie Berry, chair at FPA, said the FPA Confidential is an online ...

AXA planners may not need to rebrand: AMP

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
AXA Australia's financial planning network may not have to rebrand under the AMP name, except for the financial planning network bearing the French-based group's name, if the merger proposal is successful, according to Craig Dunn, chief executive at ...

No let up in ING asset sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
ING Australia has built itself into one of the best financial brands in Australia but that is the last thing on the minds of ING's European head office battling to repay their $40 billion in government bail-out debt as fast as they can. The pressure ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
Natural Capital joins a nascent group of fund managers hell-bent on saving the planet by backing companies that put the environment first, profits second. Sustainable investing, called by any other name, has been around for decades. But Angus Forbes ...

ING wins $1bn employer super book

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
ING Australia is transitioning the Legg Mason Corporate Super Mastertrust book, which represents $1 billion in funds under management across 20,000 member accounts, to the firm's Corporate Super suite. The firm won the trusteeship of Legg Mason Asset ...

Ralton wins three stars

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
Standard and Poor's assigns three-star ratings to three separately managed account model portfolios (SMAs) from Ralton Asset Management. The three SMAs are the Ralton Leaders model portfolio, the Ralton High Yield Australian Shares model portfolio ...

Perpetual close to recovering $125m for Mahogany

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
Perpetual Trustees came a step closer to recovering the $125 million frozen from Mahogany Capital noteholders since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, following its second successful court ruling in the United Kingdom last week. Perpetual (PTCo) commenced ...

SelectingSuper unveils 2009 top super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
SelectingSuper has recognised the industry's finest, with more than 20 of the country's 400-plus super funds making it to this year's awards shortlist. This morning's SelectingSuper Awards recognised REST Super as the Fund of the Year, and paid tribute ...

Pension fund head gets jail sentence

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
The former head of a Swiss teachers' pension fund has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after being convicted of a string of offences including fraud and embezzlement. UK-based publication online publication IPE.com reported Ignace Rey, the ...