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Quantum makes T1 bonds available to retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... minimum investment of $10,000. Both products were launched on September 2012 and they have been researched by the Independent Investment Research. Returns range from 7% to 9% but Gribble expects returns to reach more than 10% per annum. The Sydney-based ...

Credit unions mount 'social' battle against banks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... Balance Banking campaign will lobby for change to address the imbalance in banking, through a national debate and the independent review," she said in a press statement. According to the D&M survey, at least 71% of Australian voters agree that the big ...

MLC appoints head of Platform Sales

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... of head of insurance sales and Chris Clayton to the position of head of asset management sales last year. "Both the independent and aligned markets are very important to us and we want to support all our advisers as best we can," MLC general manager ...

Dignity Super's main aim, ASFA reminds politicians

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... legislations has increased after an election date (14 September) was set by Prime Minister Julia Gillard last week. The independent representative body The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) yesterday said that any change to superannuation ...

GSAM joins transaction network

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Australia's funds are live on the independent cross-border transaction network Calastone. Calastone said that it is the only venue where the global fund industry can meet to send and receive order messages regardless of ...

Sometimes, directors just need to say 'no'

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... Tullamarine airport," he said. He chaired aviation industry fund AvSuper for around 20 year, before being appointed as the independent chairman of Telstra Super - the nation's largest corporate super fund in 2010. The path that led to him overseeing ...

Harsh ASIC ban on Seagrim slashed

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... Tribunal (ATT), allowing them to again work in financial services. Peter Seagrim and Anne-Marie Seagrim appealed to the independent appeals panel, which reduced the three year ban imposed by the corporate watchdog down to just six months, from 27 June ...

Financial Simplicity morphs into infrastructure solutions provider

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
Financial services technology company, Financial Simplicity has moved its business model away from investment administration and refocused on infrastructure solutions due to opportunities thrown up by changing market dynamics. Enda Mahoney, chief technology ...

Hastings securities in trading halt as PPA ups offer

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... PPA offer increased to $2.43 per HDF stapled security, compared to its previous offer of $2.3251 per security. The independent directors of HDF continue to recommend unanimously that security holders accept the PPA offer, in the absence of a superior ...

MySuper outside government scope

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... sections coming together. Also on the panel was Productivity Commission representative Mike Woods, who said that the independent government agency was conscious that the superannuation system was experiencing a great deal of change, taking this into ...