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Aviva and Wide Bay join forces to buy Financial Technology

Aviva Australia and Wide Bay Australia have teamed up to each acquire a 25 per cent stake in Financial Technology Securities giving both companies a collective shareholding in Financial Technology of 50.01 per cent. Financial Technology is a financial ...

Watson Wyatt picks up consultant gig for LUCRF

Industry superannuation fund Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) has named Watson Wyatt as its investment consultant as of August 1st this year. The announcement follows on from news that Watson Wyatt was chosen as consultant by the Federal ...

New country head for JP Morgan's global securities business

JP Morgan has appointed Tony Winwood as business and operations head for JP Morgan's newly formed Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) business in Australia and New Zealand. The newly created business was formed following the recent integration of the ...

SSgA promotes Goodlad in team reshuffle

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has appointed Robert Goodlad as its new managing director and head of operations in Australia and New Zealand. The move represents a promotion for Goodlad whose most recent role was SSgA director of business development. ...

ASIC moves against unlicensed business

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has begun proceedings in the Federal Court in Perth against David Alan Zohar and Swancove Enterprises Pty Ltd (Swancove) following an investigation into written advertisements and the operation ...

Former NAB currency options trader jailed

Former head of the National Australia Bank's (NAB) foreign currency desk, Luke Duffy has been sentenced to 29 months imprisonment following three charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The County Court of Victoria ...

Interim relief for super fund product disclosure extended

Superannuation trustees will now not have to satisfy the product disclosure requirements of s1012IA of the Corporations Act 2001 until 30 June 2006. The development comes after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) decided to extend ...

Standard & Poor's rates Aberdeen and Colonial First State

Standard & Poor's has assigned a strong ASSIRT rating to Aberdeen's Asian and Emerging market equity funds and a competent ASSIRT rating Colonial First State's (CFS) wholesale global property securities fund. The ASSIRT rating on Aberdeen's funds include ...

Former NAB currency trader appears in court

Former National Australia Bank (NAB) currency trader David Bullen has appeared in the County court of Victoria charged with 19 counts of dishonestly using his position as an employee and one charge of obtaining a financial advantage by deception. The ...

APRA issues tough new board proposals

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released tough new draft prudential standards and a discussion paper on proposed governance arrangements for APRA-regulated institutions. The package outlines proposals for boards: to meet composition ...