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Westpoint auditors get just desserts

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... years. Meanwhile ASIC said Robinson was engaged by Westpoint Management Limited to audit compliance with the compliance plans of three managed investment schemes, for which it was the Responsible Entity, for the financial year ended 30 June 2004. Robinson ...

AXA maintains 2012 planner recruitment target

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... financial planning business at the expense of quality because our brand is very important," said Williams. "We do have some plans... we will have 550 advisers under the AXA brand [by 2012]," he said. One of the methods AXA will be employing to attract ...

Westpac FP maintains focus on senior planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... its aspirational target to recruit 200 senior financial planners over three years. Despite this setback, the group has no plans to change its umbrella strategy. Westpac Financial Planning's three year strategy to boost its ranks with around 200 senior ...

Investors want more Centrelink

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... fallen in value, and planners have their hands full with concerned clients worried about their current or future retirement plans. Meanwhile longevity risk was another area that has increasingly gained traction among investors, who are now cautious of ...

Sunsuper extends planning service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... on $50,000 per annum. While the fees are waived for members with all their superannuation in the fund, the Check-Ups and Plans, a phone based financial planning service that occurs every three years, costs $300 for those that don't. The program also ...

Super must become more efficient: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... investment returns. In a widely publicised 6000 word manifesto, the Prime Minister has outlined his views of the economy and his plans for the nation as it emerges from recession covering infrastructure policy, taxation, regulation, climate change, retirement ...

The market's next 800-pound gorilla

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... stimulus program undertaken to avert a recession. "This Government has now commenced a sustained deficit spending program. It plans to run deficits for seven years. At end June this year, the gross debt on issue clicked over $100 billion, and by June ...

GESB looks to alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... on GESB's agenda, although Hicks said the firm's investment process was about "prioritising opportunities" and the fund plans to tackle adding new asset classes one step at a time. Credit investments are on the list, although it may not be a permanent ...

GFC spurs DB plans commitment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
If you think the GFC had pushed pension funds away from defined benefit plans, think again - more than 70 per cent of fund executives have no intention of changing their DB plan structures. A new survey by Towers Perrin and SCO noted that while the ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... yields are rising because of its positive economic prospects. NZ yields are rising because of negative ones. The government plans to borrow US$34 billion over the next four years to kick-start the economy. But the severe weakness in the economy has called ...