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Vision Super appoints new CFO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013

Industry super fund Vision Super has appointed Noelle Kelleher as its new chief financial officer. As the fund's CFO, Kelleher will oversee the financial strategy, management and reporting for the $6 billion fund. "This is an exciting time for Vision ...

TASA necessary for customer protection: accountants

LAURA MILLAN | WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013

... and obtained it within three months. "There is a difference between doing tax returns and applying technical aspects of the law into financial planning strategies, we have been applying the effect of tax to advice for ages," Ling said. "The inclusion ...

US hedge funds abandon Europe on new regulations

MARK SMITH | TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013

... apply for a "passport" that allows them to market their products to European investors with ease. Ian Meade, a partner at US law firm Akin Gump told the Financial Times that as a result, several large US hedge funds are not going to market to European ...

FPA, AFA to lobby MPs for TASA delay

LAURA MILLAN | MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013

The main financial advice associations will lobby members of Parliament today to delay the approval of tax amendments to the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA), amendments they believe will negatively affect financial advisers. The bill is scheduled to ...

CAMAC recommends charitable trust audits

LAURA MILLAN | FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013

... have anywhere year the same level of oversight," he said. "These unlicensed providers operate outside of the Corporations Law licensing regime, leaving consumers exposed because fee caps, disclosure rules and professional standards do not apply." The ...

Government scraps proposed SMSF transfer changes

MARK SMITH | FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013

... the existing requirement that an SMSF must intentionally acquire an asset from a related party in order to fall foul of the law. This could have seen more SMSF trustees penalised by the legislation where they have made an unintentional mistake."

Shorten slams opposition's 'freeze-frame' super plans

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013

Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten has used the passing of the Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2013 Measures No 1) Bill 2013 into the House of Representatives to slam the Opposition's plans to delay an increase in compulsory ...

Adviser "enshrinement" bill passes through lower house

ALICE URIBE | WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013

... Corporate Bonds and Other Measures) Bill 2013 with amendments to enshrine the terms 'financial adviser' and 'financial planner' in law. Currently under the C orporations Act 2001, there are no rules against people calling themselves "financial planners" ...

ASIC appeals Macquarie's Storm settlement

MARK SMITH | MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013

... former clients of Storm Financial and Macquarie Bank. The settlement follows a class action brought against the bank by Sydney law firm Levitt Robinson in the wake of the margin loans scandal which led to the collapse of the financial services company. ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013

... variety correction were it not for the 7.3% splat that befell the Nikkei. Perhaps, it still is...Japan just succumbed to the law of gravity with the news items of the day out on cyberspace providing the perfect excuse for Newton's law to fall (pun intended) ...

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Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:01PM

Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund.

AusFood Super looks to revitalise member engagement

MATTHEW WAI | 11:30AM

The $3.5 billion super fund has partnered with InvestStream to launch RetireSmart+, becoming the first super fund to bring an AI-powered engagement experience to some 66,000 members.

L1 Group posts 'marked recovery' in June quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:13PM

L1 Group has reported a marked recovery in investment performance in the June quarter.

European PE firm mandates Apostle with Australian distribution

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 11:50AM

Apostle Fund Management has been appointed by European investment firm Triton Partners for the distribution of its credit strategies in Australia and New Zealand.

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