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Mandatory FOFA start date confirmed for July 2013

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
The financial services industry has been given another year to implement the FOFA reforms, with the mandatory industry wide start date confirmed as July 1, 2013. Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten announced the proposed FOFA changes will kick ...

Sentry advisers' new referral opps

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
Sentry Group Advice life risk advisers will soon have access to referral opportunities after signing up to a new real estate referral process. Real Estate to Risk Referrals Pty Ltd's (RERR) structured referral process, known as the Structured Referral ...

Australian Capital Reserve directors sentenced

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
The former directors of Australian Capital Reserve have been given prison sentences on ASIC charges of false or misleading statements in the company's accounts and a prospectus. The three directors will serve their terms through Intensive Correction ...

'Twinflation' makes real asset investment popular

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
A holistic approach to real-asset investment is the best option to hedge against the threat of 'twinflation', according to AllianceBernstein. Referring to the 'secular investment backdrop' for the next decade, Jon Ruff, lead portfolio manager and director ...

RBS signs MOU for sale of Asian assets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
Malaysia's number two lender, CIMB Group Holdings Bhd has announced a memorandum of understanding with the Royal Bank of Scotland. The MOU covers the purchase of certain parts of the cash equities, equity capital markets and corporate finance businesses ...

MLC MasterKey Business Super wins mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
MLC MasterKey Business Super has won two corporate super mandates worth more than $10 million in combined funds under management. Western Australian-based mining drilling contractor Swick Mining Services and iron-ore producer Atlas will be moving their ...

Super contributions break through $1 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
In the past 13 years, $1 trillion has been contributed into superannuation funds while the proportion of benefits paid as lump sums has plummeted. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has just released its Annual Superannuation Bulletin for ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
Deleveraging in US and Europe is going to be painful and will require courageous actions from politicians that run against the grain, according to head of global investment solutions at UBS. Deleveraging will mean years of slowed growth coupled with ...

Outgoing QIC chief appointed to Suncorp board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
Outgoing QIC chief executive Doug McTaggart has been appointed as a non-executive director to the Suncorp Group board, along with Michael Cameron. Cameron is head of The GPT Group, with past roles including chief financial officer of St.George Bank ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
Seventy-one (71) Julia. Thirty-one (31) KRudd. Surprised? No. Embarrassingly entertaining? Very. But now that Team Labor has chosen, it's time to put the farce (whoops, Freudian slip), the past behind and get on with the business of governing. Yeah ...