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WA rep banned

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
ASIC has permanently banned Jason William Cox, of St James, Western Australia, from providing financial services. The banning follows Cox being sentenced in January this year to two years and four months jail with parole, for 24 counts of fraud. It ...

What gets measured, gets done

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Super fund consultants urged trustees to "sweat the detail" of how they measure fund strategy outcomes or risk failing to complete their strategies on time and on budget. Adrian Johnstone, managing director of Sequential Project Services, noted research ...

Super is not for winning votes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
Australians boast a world-class superannuation system - but that enviable standing could be lost if the Government keeps using super as a political lever, industry experts warned. In a session about how to build consumer confidence in the superannuation ...

Rising risks in liquidity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
Member investment choice (MIC), Lost Super and the 30-day portability rule are just three of many "hidden" variables that further complicates liquidity risk management for many super funds, said Howard Rosario, chief executive of Westscheme. Speaking ...

Equities could deliver zero returns: JANA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
JANA's longtime investment expert, Ken Marshman, predicts there's a 25 per cent chance that equities as an asset class will deliver low to zero returns over the next 10 years - a grim reality that should spur trustees to start lowering the risk in their ...

T. Rowe Price expands India footprint

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
US-based fund manager T. Rowe Price Group could soon become one of the first US managers to gain unprecedented access to India's burgeoning investments industry after it bought a stake in UTI Asset Management, the country's fourth largest fund manager. ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
Natural Capital joins a nascent group of fund managers hell-bent on saving the planet by backing companies that put the environment first, profits second. Sustainable investing, called by any other name, has been around for decades. But Angus Forbes ...

AMIST appoints board director

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
Super fund AMIST has appointed Gary Hardwick, a Victorian-based employer representative, to fill the board role left open by retiring board director Peter Greenham. "After more than a decade on the AMIST Super board, Peter has decided to retire and ...

Years of living dangerously

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
Australians earning $60,000 a year or less could be forced to live on half that income when they retire, if the Government makes changes to super that "unintentionally" disadvantages low to middle-income earners. Industry body ASFA challenged new Treasury ...

Govt selects Medicare to run national clearinghouse

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
Industry bodies have welcomed the government's move to provide a free superannuation clearinghouse system for small businesses through Medicare - but questions arise whether the healthcare agency is the right choice or a rushed decision. Superannuation ...