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Macquarie admits "unresolved matters" with ATO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Macquarie Group has admitted it has "unresolved matters" with the Australian Tax Office (ATO), but it considers it holds "appropriate provisions" in those. The group reacted to information published by Fairfax Media, which revealed a full-scale audit ...

Beware engaged baby boomers, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Increased member engagement could lead to a spike in complaints, according to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) chairperson Jocelyn Furlan. Furlan said this was a particular danger among the baby boomer generation, who have proved some of ...

La Trobe registers for the Shanghai Free Trade Zone

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
Credit specialist fund manager La Trobe Financial has formally registered in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ ) as part of an effort to participate in China's proposed financial market deregulation. "Asia's development and population base ...

CBA, CSSA promote FoFA legal loophole

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
Corporate super specialist advisers have found a legal loophole that could allow them to maintain a business model that has been banned under the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The loophole, as described by Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Prime Super will not appoint HIP directors to board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014

Zurich moves on from group insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
Zurich Life has withdrawn from the group life insurance sector, acknowledging that it lacks the scale to penetrate the market. The insurer will close its book to new mandates and it will cut two jobs as a result. A Zurich spokesperson told Financial ...

Citi wins custody of Norway's Oil Fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
Citi has replaced JP Morgan as custodian to Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the body that manages Norway's $850 billion Government Pension Fund Global. Colloquially known as 'the Oil Fund', according to Towers Watson it is the second largest ...

New reports to stir financial planning perfect storm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
New information about the sales-driven culture inside the Commonwealth Bank's financial planning unit has prompted the Financial Planning Association (FPA) to leap to advisers' defense. Tonight's airing of 'Banking Bad' on the ABC's Four Corners program ...

Port of Newcastle leased for $1.75bn

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
The NSW government has leased the Port of Newcastle to a consortium of investors including the Chinese government, for $1.75 billion. The consortium is comprised of Australia's Hastings Funds Management and China Merchants, a Chinese state-owned corporation. ...