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Takeovers Panel adds five

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
Minister for superannuation and corporate law, Nick Sherry, has appointed five new members, including Andrew Sisson from Balanced Equity Management, to the Takeovers Panel. The 52-member group was created to provide a mechanism for peer review of company ...

Short selling shouldn't be sold short

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
The overreaction against short selling and securities lending need to calm down, said Greenwich Alternative Investments. "Short selling provides liquidity and allows you to make calls in both directions," said Ryan Pearson, Greenwich senior vice president ...

ATO warns on super loans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... retirement. Super fund trustees have been free to borrow to acquire assets since last September, when an amendment to the SIS Act removed long-standing restrictions on borrowing. The main beneficiaries of this change are expected to be trustees of self ...

Good wine, good advice

Hunter Valley may be better known as the haven of award-winning wine but it is also a source of award-winning financial advice. Hunter region-based financial planner Jennifer Leslie has received the Financial Planner of the Year Award at the 2007 Hillross ...

So much to do, so little time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... and the HOPE NOW alliance for dealing with sub-prime crisis. In Australia we just unimaginatively call ours CLERP, FSR or SIS.

Intech alt fund posts 16pc

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Intech's flagship alternatives fund, the Global Tactical Strategies Trust (GTS), has finished its first year on a high, with a return of 16.16 per cent for the the year to end September. The absolute return, multi-manager fund delivered much of its ...

Members covered for fraud but not bad investments

... Anthony Glass, Terrence Lawson and Damian Foley from acting as trustees after uncovering multiple suspected breaches of the SIS Act. It was announced today that the government has stepped in to provide a $1.47 million financial assistance grant to the ...

Report your breach online: APRA

... breach," it said in a statement. However, the online feature is only available for breaches relating to section 29JA of the SIS Act. This ranges from late payment of levies and late lodgement of annual returns to more serious breaches such as failure ...

Sen Chapman explains Parliamentary Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
... policy has also emerged as a big issue. "Some people making submissions to the Inquiry believe APRA's interpretation of the SIS Act can undermine member investment choice [MIC] to the point where they encourage fund trustees to ignore financial planning ...

Ban default super funds: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... central to the Inquiry, Richard Gilbert, IFSA chief executive officer, said, "There may be a need for some 'ring fencing'. SIS [the Superannuation Industry Supervision Act] does not even refer to advice at all."'