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ASFA warns against using super to buy homes

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned against making any changes to the superannuation system to help young people get a foot on the property ladder. It follows recent calls from head of Lateral Economics, Nicholas Gruen, to ...

Former Sonray chief gets jail time following ASIC charges

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
The former head of Sonray Capital Markets has been jailed for five years on 10 charges, which include false accounting involving fake deposits worth over $35 million. Scott Kenneth Murray, 33, of Werribee, Victoria will serve a minimum of two and a ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
Australian Wayne Byres has been appointed as the new secretary general of global banking standard-setting body, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Byres has been at the helm of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as executive ...

Fidelity to offer fixed income products to Australian market

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
Fidelity Worldwide Investment has announced plans to bring fixed income products to the Australian market towards the end of 2012. The company said it is talking to its planners to gauge their opinions on which products it should bring over from Europe. ...

Mercer appoints new senior portfolio manager

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
Mercer has made a new senior appointment to its investment team in Melbourne. Stuart Birkett is joining the firm as senior portfolio manager, where he will head up Mercer's multi-manager equity portfolios, reporting to chief investment officer for Asia ...

Super fund ramps up insurance access

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
BUSS(Q), the Queensland based super fund for building and construction workers has introduced a new phone based claims and underwriting process to make it easier for its 90,000 members to interact with the fund's insurer. The changes which include customised ...

FOREX launches free trading app

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
FOREX.com, the retail arm of GAIN Capital Holdings, has become the latest online global trader to launch a free iPad app for customers. The new FOREXTrader app allows clients to trade and manage their accounts and gives them access to real time charts ...

Promotion prospects need to be addressed: Survey

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
The majority of Australian financial professionals are happy in their current roles and feel they have a reasonable work/life balance, according to new research from career professionals' website eFinancial Careers. However, just under half of respondents ...

OneVue to expand its UMA platform distribution

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
Platform provider OneVue said talks are at an advanced stage with several new dealer groups and accounting firms to make its unified managed account platform available to them. Adviser groups currently using the OneVue unified managed account (UMA) ...

Planner banned as watchdog continues industry clean-up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
ASIC is continuing its clean up of the financial services sector with the banning of another Sydney based planner. Stephen Paul Hing of Enmore has been barred from providing financial services for four years after an investigation revealed he took part ...