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Centric Wealth recalibrates advice through newly-formed board

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Centric Wealth gives its clients a chance to voice their concerns and priorities in a more structured manner through a newly-formed client advisory board. And despite ongoing industry discussion about fees, the first meeting of the Centric Wealth client ...

Super council won't prevent Labor tax raids

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has slammed the government's new superannuation proposals saying the new Council of Superannuation Custodians would not bring an end to future tinkering. Details about the independent body are yet to be disclosed, but Treasurer ...

Risk control software targets HFTs

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
Global trading platform provider InfoReach claims its new software can significantly reduce the risk of high frequency trading systems going haywire. The group says that recent multi-million dollar losses in the capital markets, such as the so-called ...

VicSuper adopts fresh approach to sovereign exposure

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... creditworthiness in a systematic manner. "We recognise that there is no individual solution to investing in global bonds that can safeguard against systemic risk", says VicSuper's Chief Investment Officer Oscar Fabian. "However, we strongly believe that ...

IQPC conference tackles operational risk

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... costly headaches rather than profit generating. This two-day event, commencing 5 December, focuses on how advisers can safeguard their businesses against these risks in the most cost-effective way. Delegates will hear advice from numerous senior risk ...

New MLC product protects retirees from volatility

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
MLC has outlined plans to launch a new MasterKey Investment Protection product to help Australians protect their retirement savings from ongoing volatility in equity markets. MLC's new retirement product offers two forms of protection, protected capital ...

Investment banking scale down: Barclays

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... their retail activities, reported AAP. New Basel III rules will also require Europe's major banks to hold more cash as a safeguard against another financial crisis. Jenkins said that there were several external factors "coming down the line and regulation ...

Further dark pool regulation premature: Fidessa

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Dark pools in Australia are too young for more regulation, said trading technology provider Fidessa, following a call from the ASX to tighten rules for off-exchange trades. Dark pools, which are generally unlicenced platforms for matching orders away ...

Legal challenges face default super inquiry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... Financial Standard that under options three and four of the draft PC report, the role of the Commonwealth would shift from a safeguard function to commercial assessment. "The Law Council's point is that once you move into the commercial assessment, things ...

MySuper outside government scope

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
In implementing MySuper, the government is taking on a new role outside its current remit, said Maged Girgis, partner, Minter Ellison Lawyers. The criteria for inclusion on the list of default funds means that the government is undertaking a commercial ...