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Super heavyweights reach out to younger members

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) hosted a roundtable for superannuation heavyweights yesterday as it prepares for its sponsorship of Youth Week in April, aimed at engaging younger Australians and their super. Held yesterday, the forum involved representatives ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
As the world rebuilds its regulatory structures around the financial system, it needs to recognise that the system is an integrated network of ecosystems, not a set of independent machines. Speaking at yesterday's Melbourne Financial Services Symposium ...

Century Funds manager bid fails

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... unitholders present and voting with only around 40 per cent of the register voted. Fifty per cent of the total unitholding voting yes was required to effect a manager change. The bid to take over the managerial role for the $240 million Opus 21 property ...

Dealer groups raise stakes in portfolio mgmt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Dealer groups are forming deeper relationships with fewer investment managers, resulting in a surplus of managers, said Toby Potter, chairman of the Institute of Managed Account Providers (IMAP) at an industry briefing yesterday. Potter said the pool ...

FPA slams industry fund 'one track agenda'

ELISE BURGESS, ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has weighed in on the opt-in arguments advocated by sections of the trade union superannuation movement, calling the action "alarmist" and part of the industry funds "one track agenda". The FPA yesterday said ...

TOWER, CommInsure tie as top insurers

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
TOWER Australia and CommInsure both named Life Company of the Year in the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan for Life awards held yesterday. In a surprise, the two life insurers ranked equal in the main category, with the awards committee ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Months of anxiety over rising inflation, speculation over near-term hikes in interest rates (in the developed economies) and/or actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... inflationary pressures. Financial markets now expect the European Central Bank, for instance, to raise interest rates in August - yes, this year - after ECB council member Yves Mersch declared that "I would not be surprised at most colleagues concluding ...

Adviser banned for life

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
A financial adviser has been banned for life after using a retired faming couple's savings to fund a margin loan, ASIC said yesterday. Trevor Wayne Carll of Port Pirie, South Australia, worked for local planning business Bruce McDonald Investment Services ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... the clamour for democracy also spread to China just as we heard on yesterday's news. Remember the Tiananmen Square incident? Yes, this happened in 1989 at the height of the popular revolt in Eastern Europe. There was also much uncertainty back then just ...