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ASSET Super appoints union member to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
ASSET Super has appointed Unions NSW assistant secretary, Chris Christodoulou, to its board. Christodoulou was elected assistant secretary of Unions NSW in October 2008. He joined the union in 1981 after being elected Wollongong Sub-Branch Secretary ...

Macquarie to shut CMT, transitions to CMA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
Macquarie Group has announced a proposal to close down its flagship cash management trust and transfer $9.8 billion of funds from the CMT to the Macquarie Cash Management Account. According to a Macquarie statement, the firm is seeking Macquarie CMT ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Whew! Thank goodness we got some reprieve from the avalanche of economic data released over the past few days. Wall Street closed flat to up overnight as it nervously awaits what the mother of all economic releases - the US Non-farm Payrolls report ...

Fees secondary to return: Qantas Super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
Super funds should prioritise delivering strong net investment returns over finding ways to cut fees - an issue that has been swept aside as fee debates heat up, said Qantas Super chief executive, Janet Torney. Speaking at an ASFA luncheon yesterday ...

Prison sentence for finance fraudster

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Hugh Charles Gordon, the former head of Newcastle investment company Whet Investments, was sentenced to 18 months jail, for fraud. Gordon, of Redheads, New South Wales, will be released after serving eleven months but will have to enter into a recognizance ...

Mortgage trust managers have lots of questions to answer

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Mortgage fund managers have spent the past couple of days in damage control, reassuring planners and investors that the assets of their funds are secure. These moves come in the wake of the announcement by Colonial First State on Tuesday that it would ...

Supercorp software adds 2,000 users

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
Supercorp Technology's self managed super fund (SMSF) administration software is being used to process more than 2,000 SMSFs just four months after the solution was launched. The firm's software, superMate, was launched in October last year as the next ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
It wasn't that too long ago that central banks the world over were losing their attraction for the US dollar and diversifying their currency reserves. China, Russia, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks were falling in love with the yen and the euro ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
If you believe the mantra that any economic recovery would not be sustainable without employment growth, then there is now no doubt that Australia has one sustainable economic expansion going. The latest Labour Force, Australia released by the Australian ...

AMP planners back fee for service APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
AMP's financial planners have thrown their support behind an approved product list (APL) that does not include any commissions - and fund managers keen to keep their business are fast adjusting to the change. Steve Helmich, director Financial Planning ...