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FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... with through better regulation of products and not advisers. "We no longer want to see just the advisers being held accountable, for a failure of a product or for the wrongdoing of auditors or directors. We think everyone has proportional accountability ...

Trustees must raise bar on governance: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... paper calls for trustees to disclose fees to levels not seen before. This is because expectations on super funds to be accountable and transparent are much higher today compared to a decade ago - and as such best practice guidelines will need to keep ...

AMIST appoints CIO

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... Actuarial Studies. Livanas said the fund created the new role ahead of new regulation that will make trustees more accountable for their fund's investments. "I think more and more super funds will be required to do the heavy lifting on their investments," ...

SEC charges New Jersey with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... shake", and misrepresented pertinent information about its financial situation. "Issuers of municipal bonds must be held accountable when they seek to borrow the public's money using offering documents containing false and misleading information," said ...

US fin reforms win pension fund support

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... CalPERS, has applauded President Barack Obama's new federal financial reform law that holds credit rating agencies more accountable for their ratings and imposes tougher requirements on hedge funds. The $233 billion-plus California Public Employees' ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... about its safety procedures and its ability to respond to events like the ongoing oil spill and we're going to hold it accountable." The comptroller is seeking to lead the action against BP to "give the fund and other investors their best chance at recovering ...

NY firm defrauds billion dollar CDOs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... responsibilities to their clients as every other investment adviser. When they violate their clients' trust, we will hold them accountable." ICP and Priore also caused the CDOs to make numerous prohibited investments without obtaining necessary approvals ...

Wealth transfer strategies top adviser books

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... GFC, but trust, reliability and technical quality seemed to hold up - clients are smart enough to know you're not accountable for... the whims of the market, but they are asking, how well have you devised an overall strategy for me?" he said. The issue ...

Too clever by half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... doesn't believe Goldman acted improperly and that the Abacus deal involved sophisticated investors who should be held accountable for their own bad decisions. Nothing wrong with that, he is entitled to his own opinion. But something's wrong when you ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... won't have access to their previous super savings (in the minute chance they can recover some or all of it). Who's accountable? Superannuation experts said that the NSW TAB case is unchartered territory for the industry. First, super funds have to abide ...