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Finsia appoints interim CEO

Finsia has appointed Stephen Harrison as interim chief executive officer following Brian Salter stepping down from the role. Harrison has played a number of support roles in the industry over the last 18 months on top of his non-executive interests ...

Cuscal's customers commit for the long term

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
Credit Union Services Corporation (Aust) Ltd (Cuscal) has entered into long-term contracts with all its existing customers. All 117 credit unions that had partnered with Cuscal have re-signed contracts out to 2012. John Gilbert, chief executive of Cuscal ...

Member TFNs now law but problems persist

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
Fund members not wanting to lose their superannuation tax concessions are, since 1 July, required to supply their Tax File Number (TFN) to their fund, but that doesn't mean concerns about how the legislation operates have subsided. Josel Ginsburg, a ...

Austock added to Mac margin lending

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
Macquarie has added Austock Imputation Bonds to the approved list for Macquarie Margin Loans. Austock Life managing director, Ross Higgins, said the ability for investors to now gear the Austock Imputation Bond through a third party provider like Macquarie ...

ING Real Estate moving in-house

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
ING Real Estate will be moving parts of its retail portfolio capabilities back in-house, but the relationship with Savills will not be severed completely. After three years managing ING Real Estate's retail portfolio, ING has decided to bring some capabilities ...

AIG builds major risk upgrade for AON

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
AIG Life has custom built new group insurance arrangements with AON Master Trust, adding a significant range of new policy features that AON believes makes their master trust among the most competitive in the market. AIG Life's Head of Group Insurance ...

Advisers have 30 days to issue SoA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the period in which an adviser can provide a Statement of Adive (SoA) from five to 30 days to cope with the frenzy of activity around the new super rules. ASIC said it had responded ...

Sunsuper seals admin deal with a twist

While many financial planners are moving towards the fixed fee model, fund administration services providers are running in the opposite direction, as evident from the recent Sunsuper and Citistreet deal. Sunsuper has continued its contract with fund ...

Regulation of private equity unlikely to change

Regulation of private equity firms is unlikely to change, Jeremy Cooper, deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, told an industry conference this week. Cooper told the annual conference of the Securities and Derivatives ...

Allco opens door to Malaysia

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
Allco Finance Group has entered into a joint venture arrangement with Malaysia's second largest financial services provider to pursue opportunities in the region. Allco and its joint venture partner in Malaysia CIMB Group will first launch the CIMB ...