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AAS loses chief executive

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007
... Pacific Equity Partners. According to Rainmaker, AAS administers superannuation covering approximately 3.5 million member accounts. No one at AAS was available for comment.

Westpac breaks up consumer and business banking

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
... will be responsible for mortgages and personal lending, third part relationships, cards and savings and transactions accounts. Peter Hanlon will step into the role of group executive, Business Financial Services, from his previous role as general manager ...

FPA checklist to guide members on super switching

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... "FPA members have expressed concerns about the unavailability of some information on clients' current superannuation accounts, which inhibits their ability to advise clients on super switching," chief executive officer, Jo-Anne Bloch, said. "ASIC's position ...

Ignore global benchmarks: Aberdeen

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... but not necessarily indicative of the present or future. "If you think about it from a global GDP point of view, the US accounts for approximately 30 per cent of world GDP and it's about 50 per cent of the global market capitalisation. "Let's compare ...

Mutiple super costs $315m: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) estimates that the total cost of unnecessary and duplicate superannuation accounts is $315 million per year, a fraction of the $2 billion figure by consumer group CHOICE. The findings were from the "Aggregate ...

Adviser jailed for five and a half years

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... things, that Hoy had obtained $368,000 from investors by convincing them to deposit funds into various company and personal accounts where they would be invested in a term deposit promising 10 per cent yield or more. He used this money for his own purposes. ...

China booming to a bubble?

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... forming in the Chinese stock market as local investors drive up prices to record levels, with over 1.4 million new trading accounts opening up in January alone. The Chinese Banking Regulation Commission (CBRC) is so concerned about the rising demand ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... lift over the last six months from a long-term decline in R&D per capita. The report notes that full-time ICT employment accounts for nearly 5.5 per cent of such employment in Australia which is apparently more than many other industry sectors including ...

Macq's the new kid on the SMA block

The private portfolio arm of Macquarie will begin offering separately managed accounts (SMAs) from April this year, joining the growing crowd of SMA providers hitting the market since BlackRock (formerly Merrill Lynch) launched its version a year ago. ...

Macq property gears up for SMSFs

... opportunities," he said. "Macquarie Direct Property Fund has been specifically structured for inclusion into SMSF and other wrap accounts, and [Regan's] appointment will allow us to meet the needs of advisors looking for appropriate investment vehicles." ...