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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The Australian share market has received generally positive leads from overnight trading overseas, with Wall Street closing flat to higher, gold and oil prices rising, while silver and base metal copper eased. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0739 ...

AIA appoints non-exec chair

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
AIA Australia appointed former managing director of Telecom New Zealand, Theresa Gattung, as non-executive chair of its board. Gattung joined the board as a director in July last year. She worked as chief executive and managing director at Telecom New ...

NSW man sentenced for early super release

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
Another one bites the dust - SMSF trustee Atan Ona Kassongo joins the growing list of offenders caught unlawfully allowing early access to his super fund. Kassongo, of Castle Hill, New South Wales, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment, to be ...

MLC appoints head of onsale advice product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
MLC Insurance has appointed former Allianz Life executive, Meredith Barnes, to the role of head of onsale advice product. Barnes will be responsible for ensuring the MLC Personal Protection Portfolio and the Aviva Protection First insurance product ...

ASIC ramps up market surveillance

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
ASIC has acquired an integrated market surveillance system (IMSS) that will analyse activities and trends in market data, identify suspicious trading activity, and raise alerts. The IMSS will be provided by the SMARTS Market Surveillance, which won ...

SA adviser banned for no AFSL

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
ASIC has banned South Australian planner Steven Edward Fleetwood from providing financial services for five years, after giving out trading and advice services without having an Australian Financial Services Licence. The banning of Fleetwood follows ...

Magill joins Matrix

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Former chief executive of Statewide Superannuation Fund, Frances Magill, has emerged from retirement to establish a new planning group - Frances Magill Financial Strategists - and recently joined Matrix Planning Solutions. Magill retired from the South ...

Senate showdown looms on Clearing House legislation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
Coalition calls for major amendments to the Government's legislation to authorise the Medicare monopoly on Approved Superannuation Clearing Houses is setting up another Senate showdown."The Coalition needs to indicate today that they will allow this ...

AvSuper rolls out conservative growth option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
AvSuper has unveilled a new conservative growth investment option to especially service members approaching retirement or who are risk averse. The $1 billion-plus AvSuper last month announced the launch of the new option, which was introduced following ...

AUSCOAL tags health fund and credit union

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
The $4.8 billion AUSCOAL Super is teaming up with a mining-focused health fund and credit union to provide expanded services to its members. AUSCOAL Super, which had $4.82 billion at the end of September according to Rainmaker Information, said it was ...