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AUSCOAL and Maritime drop merger talks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
AUSCOAL Super and Maritime Super have decided not to merge, opting instead to pursue more strategic partnerships, for now. In a joint statement, Maritime Super fund chair Paddy Crumlin and AUSCOAL Super's Arthur Weston said that their fund members would ...

Tower adds to adviser support

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Tower Australia has recruited a former AMP Financial Planning manager as state sales manager. Tower has named Charl du Plooy as its NSW/ACT State Sales Manager, Retail Life. Formerly with AMP Financial Planning, du Plooy has managed distribution teams ...

FRM attracts $25m inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Financial Risk Management (FRM), a global hedge fund of fund investment firm, launched its offshore fund FRM Sigma, investing in a globally-source portfolio of Commodity Trading Advisers (CTAs) that specialise in managed futures. A managed futures account ...

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has clarified its definition of liquid assets that the banking industry must hold from 2015. In the wake of the global financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) ...

SMSFs a blueprint for future super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
From Better Super to Stronger Super and now future super, the Gillard Government endorsed self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as a model for retirement savings in the years to come. Speaking last night at the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Christchurch continues to dig through the rubble left by the tremor that hit the region three days ago in the hope of rescuing all those still trapped underneath. While on the other part of the globe, Libyan butcher Qaddafi continues to turn his country ...

RI Advice Group targets WA practices

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
RI Advice Group (RI, formerly RetireInvest) plans to recruit five Western Australian financial planning groups to its network this year, starting with Perth-based group Wealth Designers. The financial planning network said it expects to bring on another ...

AMP steps up adviser support

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
AMP has launched new technology communication tools and peer-to-peer workshops to provide greater support for its advisers. AMP launched the initiative to promote intra-group communications and to facilitate regular meetings even across state boundaries. ...

Bennelong shuts global equities fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
Bennelong Funds Management is liquidating one of its funds after the underlying manager, Security Global Investors (SGI), closed its global equities office following a business review by its parent company. Security Benefit, acquired by Guggenheim Partners ...

Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
I wonder if anyone noticed that there was a G-20 meeting held over the weekend. Yes, there was! Honest. Am sure many have heard of the meeting in Paris where the world's 20 most powerful heads talked to discuss the collective economic and financial ...