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HOSTPLUS unveils new TV ads

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Industry fund HOSTPLUS has launched a new advertising campaign to attract more members to its fund. The campaign will include a series of three television commercials (TVCs), the first of which went to air this week. The ads will focus on an emotional ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! We're all hearing this cheer growing louder by the day whether in reference to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi or the currency markets internationally. In Delhi, Australians currently lead their Commonwealth competitors ...

Planners cycle for charity

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... they can donate or commit to raise $500 and ride with them for one day." Future2 will hold eight positions every day of the tour for financial planners and others committed to supporting the Wheel Classic. Griffin and Bobbin will follow the track that ...

Goldman Sachs pay $620m to settle SEC lawsuit

SEC RELEASE, BLOOMBERG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
Goldman Sachs & Co has paid the US regulator more than $620 million (US$550 million), the largest penalty ever levelled against a financial firm, for allegedly misleading investors regarding the deals behind its sub-prime mortgage product. Goldman Sachs ...

The octopus on fees versus commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
An iPhone app based on Paul the Octopus is undecided whether adviser remuneration should tilt towards fee for service rather than stay with commissions as the default payment method. The Ask Octopus app was developed in Brazil by uTouchLabs and is available ...

HOSTPLUS and ME Bank open shop

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
HOSTPLUS and ME Bank have opened a full service retail outlet on the Gold Coast, marking the super fund and the bank's foray into providing traditional banking services - but with superannuation advice available, too, if their customers request it. ...

HOSTPLUS opens NT and Sydney offices

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
The $7 billion-plus HOSTPLUS has opened new offices in Darwin and Parramatta, to cater for continued growth in these areas. For local employers, the new offices will provide a personal service on the ground, according to a press release. "A local office ...

Goldman Sachs accused of fraud

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents for fraud relating to subprime mortgages. The SEC is charging Goldman Sachs for defrauding investors by mis-stating and omitting key facts about a ...

IFSA and Deloitte launch Future Leaders award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... support quality financial advice. Deloitte will award the winner of the Future Leaders' Award 2010 an all expenses paid study tour to an overseas destination to share ideas with a Deloitte global leader.

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Hold that turkey! Put that cork back into the champagne bottle! Thanksgiving has been hijacked! If you don't standstill, we sink. Dubai World reportedly intends to ask its creditors to "standstill" and extend maturities of its about US$59 billion debt ...