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Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... a disclosed policy on child labour and forced labour, while 38% had a publicly disclosed supply-chain LHR policy. Only a third of companies disclosed supplier audits or risk assessments. "Current disclosure levels by Australian companies, especially ...

HUB24 add AIA to platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
Life insurer AIA Australia has announced a new partnership with investment platform HUB24. This is the third platform partnership AIA has made in the past two years. AIA general manager of life insurance Damien Mu said the platform linkups are designed ...

Trustees warned about unintentional SMSF contributions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... of such unintentional contributions are: non-market rent charged on a property owned by the fund; paying an amount to a third party for the benefit of the fund; and when a debt owed by the fund is forgiven. Harley also warned trustees and members to ...

Company director charged with QLD property fraud

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... promised returns, and that invested funds instead went into company bank accounts, from which they were paid to Hill and third parties. Hill, of Kelso in New South Wales, was granted bail with residential requirements, and forbidden to attempt to leave ...

FIIG appoints joint heads of intermediaries

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... Jenkin and Gross will focus on business development, including long-lead time projects to integrate FIIG's products into third-party provider investment platforms. FIIG is Australia's largest fixed income specialist with over $9 billion currently under ...

Aust shares weaken ahead of RBA minutes

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... put on 0.76 per cent. Investors are bracing themselves for news this week on whether the US Federal Reserve will pare its third round of bond buying, known as quantitative easing. Meanwhile, Elders' shares have dived 10 per cent, or 0.9 cents, to 8.1 ...

Credit Suisse awarded best UHNW service provider

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... mature," Credit Suisse UHNW managing director in Australia Shane Galligan said. Credit Suisse has received the award for the third consecutive year, head of Credit Suisse Private Banking in Australia Edward Jewell-Tait said. The Australian Private Banking ...

Investors move to real assets after GFC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
Australian investors are moving away from sovereign debt and showing a preference for infrastructure and direct property, the annual Principal Global Investors (PGI) CREATE Report found. The ageing population and a global move by governments and corporates ...

FIRST Super questions fairness of Coalition's super board quota policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... Superannuation Mathias Cormann reaffirmed the Coalition's policy to legislate that independent advisers must comprise one third of industry superannuation fund boards. "If there's this policy on one third independent directors on super funds, does that ...

BDMs facing major changes without industry support

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... is a disconnection between what's happening in the market place and what BDMs are being asked to do," he said. About one third of BDMs say they are not satisfied with their jobs and 81% reported that they have had an increase of workload in the last ...