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Madison appoints general manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... Group and has a network of more than 80 authorised representatives in 40 offices across Queensland, New South Wales, Canberra, South Australia and Victoria. It also has almost $3 billion in funds under management and recurring insurance premiums in excess ...

ASIC acted only when claims hit "tsunami level"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... thought it safer to avoid making a decision than to make one that might be later criticised in either a courtroom or in Canberra."

Platinum offers $15,000 financial planning scholarship

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... Association (FPA) has announced. The scholarships will be offered through five Australian universities; Deakin, LaTrobe, Canberra, Western Sydney and Wollongong, and will commence at the beginning of the 2014 academic year. The scholarships offered will ...

AVCAL appoints ICAA exec as CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... Australand Property Group. He also has experience as a policy adviser with the Federal Department of the Treasury in Canberra. "Yasser's front-line experience in working constructively with the government on business policy issues and, at the same time ...

Australian Ethical pays out $300k in redundancies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... retail super fund Australian Ethical will make a number of employees redundant following a "substantial reduction" of its Canberra office. In a release published on the ASX website, Australian Ethical chief executive Phil Vernon said, "The financial ...

Coalition to save $1.6bn via SG delay

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... coalition needed to find. "The coalition is absolutely committed to living within its means," Mr Hockey told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday. "After six years of Labor getting every single budget number wrong, enough is enough." The coalition's plan ...

ISN criticises "irresponsible" CPA super report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... off excessive debt In the executive summary, the report's author, Simon Kelly, adjunct professor at the University of Canberra, wrote: "[I]n the context of this study, which examined superannuation and household savings, the verdict is that accumulated ...

Too much super diverted to pay personal debt: CPA report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... verdict' commissioned and released by CPA Australia was prepared by Simon Kelly, adjunct professor at the University of Canberra and formerly a principal research fellow at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling. The focus of the report ...

Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... beyond just being about the investment money they manage," she said. Conway, speaking to a Women In Super function held in Canberra yesterday said, "We don't want quotas but we support processes to address the problem. I see no appetite in this country ...

But industry bodies see FoFA delay "unlikely"

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... require changes to the legislation, but the last parliamentary sitting before the federal election was held yesterday in Canberra. "I can't see space for a delay, this shifting of dates seems unlikely to happen," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) ...