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More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Management Corporation in Canada, made the comments in a wideranging presentation to the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) conference in Sydney yesterday. De Bever's presence at the conference marks one of his rare visits after his ...

AusFIN calls for 'fairer outcomes'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Consumer Action Law Centre, Finance Sector Union of Australia, Australian Financial Counselling and Credit Reform Association, Consumer Credit Legal Centre (NSW), Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA), Per Capita and The Australia Institute ...

ASIC slaps tough penance for fin services misconduct

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
In a landmark case, a young broker charged with multiple counts of insider trading has received a four-and-a-half year jail sentence, the highest sentence on record for that offence in Australia. On December 2 John Joseph Hartman, 25, of Mosman, New ...

VicSuper wins sustainability award

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... integration of sustainability into the organisation's business practices according to the judges. The awards, from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in Australia and New Zealand (ACCA), are based on the level of on transparency in environmental ...

MTAA halts new money to 'illiquid' option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... invested in the option at the end of June, according to Rainmaker Information. The fund, which is a member of industry association ASFA, decided to close the TRO following concerns the strategy's assets might not be sufficiently liquid to meet ASFA's ...

FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
While the Financial Planning Association (FPA) was embracing change and moving forward with a new strategic direction at its annual conference last week, it was still keen to argue the case for planners in some of the industry's most sensitive debates. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens addresses CEDA's annual dinner and 50th anniversary celebration. The Housing Industry Association (HIA) issues new home sales data for October, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases business indicators for ...

FPA unveils Value of Advice winners

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
Dennis Jones, Charles Badenach and Stephen Priestley have been named this year's Financial Planning Association Value of Advice award winners. Jones, Badenach and Priestley were announced as winners of the awards respectively for wealth accumulation ...

Rowe takes FPA chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
Former Financial Planning Association (FPA) deputy chair Matthew Rowe has officially assumed the role of chair at the annual general meeting today following the departure of Julie Berry. Rowe said that the board of the FPA was committed to improving ...

Opt in rules not up for debate

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
The hung parliament is all that stands in the way of controversial "opt in" requirements being adopted, if comments from a senior Treasury department official are anything to go by. Speaking at the FPA conference on the Gold Coast, Dr Richard Sandlant ...