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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 ...

Perennial aids Emergency Services cash investment

Perennial Investment Partners has won a $200 million mandate to manage the Emergency Services Superannuation (ESS) cash enhanced investment. Perennial's responsibility in the arrangement is to boost the investment returns on ESS's cash holdings. The ...

ASIC reveals financial services refinement projects

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has put forward details of the eight projects it will embark on as part of the Federal Government's Refinements to Financial Services Regulation. Each project has its own timetable with ASIC ...

ASIC documents and expands relief rulings

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released an updated report detailing its relief rulings given to financial service providers from certain provisions of the Corporations Act 2001, and has also issued a new class order ...