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Super board quality compromised over pay rates

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... Westgarth chief executive John Denton. Speaking as part of a panel at The Economist Bellwether 2013 Australian Forum in Sydney this week, Denton said that despite Australia's superannuation funds being "multi-billion dollar behemoths," the quality of ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... economic news is expected on Friday. In equities news, Santos is slated to post its second quarter activities report, while Sydney Airport is due to release June traffic numbers. In Australia, the market on Thursday again nudged above the 5,000 point ...

Former Deutsche exec launches investment firm

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The former head of equity derivatives and trading at Deutsche Bank Sydney, Peter Kennedy, has launched a new investment firm, Kennedy Investments. Kennedy Investment is based on a "cyclical" approach to investing, and will be open to individual investors ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... growth. In his first public address since being replaced by Chris Bowen at The Economist Bellweather 2013 Australian Forum in Sydney, Swan said predictions of economic instability, or even recession, ignore the fact that the transition is happening gradually ...

HLB growth leads to senior appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... company and a not-for-profit organisation. In Melbourne, Darryl Smith has become partner in the business services area and in Sydney Todd Gammel is the new business recovery and insolvency partner. He has over 15 years' insolvency experience including ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... its transition away from a focus on mining. Addressing delegates at The Bellweather Series, an annual finance forum in Sydney from The Economist's intelligence unit via link-up from the World Bank's Washington DC headquarters, Basu said Australia's relative ...

Blue Sky invests $20m in Oak Tree retirement villages

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... only scalable corporate operators in the under-services regional affordable niche," said managing director of Blue Sky's Sydney office Andrew Champion. "We are impressed with their focus on this niche and their discipline across the full value chain ...

Henderson to grow local presence through "buy and build" approach

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... operating officer Sophia Rahmani told Financial Standard about the group's "buy and build" plan at a meeting at its new Sydney office. Gaden said Henderson was in discussions with a number of boutique active fund managers in a bid to build "meaningful ...

Workers should track down super when changing jobs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... last financial year should keep track of their superannuation savings or they could end up with two funds. HLB Mann Judd Sydney wealth management partner Jonathan Philpot reminded that "unless action has been taken to transfer super from a previous fund ...

SMSF 'Boost Camp' 2013 gets underway July 23

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Sydney will host the first day of the 2013 SPAA State Technical 'Boost Camp' Series on Tuesday 23 July, at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. The event, organised by the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...