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APRA accepts enforceable undertakings from five former Trio directors

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has accepted enforceable undertakings from former Trio Capital Limited (Trio) directors Cameron Anderson, Michael Anderson, Terrence Hallinan, Lorenzo Macolino and John Harte. Trio was formerly the ...

AustralianSuper returns likely to decline in FY14

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
The AustralianSuper's most popular investment has returned 15.63% investment fees and taxes for the year, a result that will be difficult to match next financial year according to the Fund. "I don't expect a similar result next year," AustralianSuper ...

Trust expects buyout talks to impact profit

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
The Trust Company has reported a profit from March 2012 to August 2012, but it expects the talks of an acquisition from Equity Trustees (EQT) or Perpetual to have an impact on profit. The Trust Company financial held yesterday an annual general meeting ...

Industry welcomes grandfathering extension

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has welcomed the Senate approval of the grandfathering regulation, one of the last pending aspects of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation. The Senate vote has given the industry 12 more months ...

Tyndall launches fund for low-tax rate instos

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
Tyndall AM has made its Australian Share Concentrated strategy available to zero or low tax rate institutions such as charities, endowment funds and super funds, with the launch of a new fund. The new Tyndall Australian Share Concentrated Income fund ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
The platform market has broken funds under advice (FUA) records in the March quarter, after plunging during the global financial crisis (GFC). An uptick in investor confidence and an increase in adviser productivity could be behind the growth of the ...

FirstChoice platform offers PIMCO bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Colonial First State FirstChoice platform has included PIMCO bonds to its investment options. The PIMCO offering is the first global bond investment option available on FirstChoice and it follows a strategy of seeking strong, consistent investment returns ...

New Treasurer Bowen takes control of financial services and super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Chris Bowen will take over responsibility for the financial services and superannuation portfolio from Bill Shorten, as part of his responsibilities as treasurer. Previously a separate portfolio with a separate minister (Shorten), Prime Minister Kevin ...

TAL Life CEO to sit on parent board

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
TAL Life Insurance Group (TAL) chief executive and managing director Jim Minto has been appointed to the board of Tokyo-based parent company Dai-ichi Life as executive officer. Minto will continue in his role as group chief executive of TAL. TAL chairman ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
Uh-oh, looks like it's still "not safe... very dangerous, be careful". Just when the Fed's started to deploy some official to unwind the fear that Bernanke's "tapering soon" rhetoric created, along comes China. New York Fed president Bill Dudley remarked ...