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AXA overseas recruitment drive slows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
AXA Australia's financial planning recruitment drive in the UK and South Africa has slowed with the financial services firm adding only two planners from those countries in the past six months. The firm has promoted the opportunity to join its Australian ...

VTP board backs capital return to shareholders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
The drama that unfolded five months ago, when financial planning firm Dixon Advisory helped oust the board of listed investment company van Eyk Three Pillars, culminated this week with the proposal to return capital back to shareholders. The board and ...

Austock appoints former Merrill chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
Austock Group has appointed former chief executive at Bank of America - Merrill Lynch Australia, Paul Masi, as chief executive and managing director of the group. Masi has held a number of investment positions at BZW during the 1990s including head ...

Challenger income and index fund boost profit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Challenger Financial Services saw net profit after tax (NPAT) rise in the first half of the financial year thanks to strong returns from its life company division and the expansion of its product offering. The firm's normalised NPAT rose nine per cent ...

SPAA names award winners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Philip Mason Cox, director at Hayes Knight Financial Planning and Shirley Schaefer, treasurer of SPAA's South Australian state chapter, were recognised at last night's SPAA awards. Brisbane-based, Mason Cox, received the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' ...

KPMG sounds alarm on admin fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Super fund trustees must make sure they have the option to audit their administration provider's performance, at short notice, to minimise the risk of fraud, according to KPMG. Speaking at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia ...

No cane toad approach to SMSF shake-up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
As the countdown begins to the release of the Cooper Review's recommendations on SMSFs, the Review's chair Jeremy Cooper said they won't be adopting a 'cane toad' solution to the industry's flaws. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia ...

More SMSFs comply with ATO rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Michael D'Ascenzo, commissioner of taxation at the Australian Tax Office, has commended the self managed super fund (SMSF) industry after the number of SMSF trustees that lodged their returns on time rose 11 per cent on the prior lodgement period. Speaking ...

Limited advice from accountants face hurdles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Tony D'Aloisio, chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), said SPAA's proposal advocating for accountants to be able to provide limited structural advice on superannuation could be impractical. Speaking yesterday at the Self ...

Westpac and St.George merger ahead of schedule

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
Westpac and St.George Bank's merger is proceeding ahead of plan. At Westpac's first quarter trading update, Gail Kelly, chief executive at the bank, said the merger with St.George Bank is progressing well. Approval to move to a single Authorised Deposit-taking ...