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CHOICE wants commissions banned

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Consumer body CHOICE launched a new campaign this month calling for a ban on commission-based remuneration and other conflicted remuneration to advisers. Titled 'Financial advice: is it in your interest?' campaign, the association is attacking what ...

SuperTrace wins Heron award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
The SuperTrace Eligible Rollover Fund (SuperTrace) has received a five star quality rating from the Heron Partnership for the second consecutive year. Independent superannuation consultancy The Heron Partnership once again awarded SuperTrace, part of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
Local banks pushed the Australian share market slightly higher at noon, after the United States Federal Reserve said major US banks that were ordered to raise capital had developed sufficient plans. Many of the resource stocks, including Australia's ...

Unlisted valuations on track: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
Super funds with unlisted assets can breathe easier knowing that more than 93 per cent of their alternative investment managers are strictly following their valuation policies, according to a survey by Frontier Investment Consulting. Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

Go online, get results

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
With 13 million online users in Australia and $24 billion spent on the web last year, it's time to make online technology the heart of your super campaign, says a marketing expert. Mike Hill, director of Holler and speaker at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

The best of the best in financial services marketing, sales and business development battled it out in this year's Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards, with the winners announced last night at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney. This year's event gave ...

Broker swindled investor funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
A former mortgage broker has been charged with fraud after failing to invest $123,000 from a private investor. Adrian Camilleri, who used to work as a mortgage broker and director for Asset Finance Service, was found guilty yesterday on one count of ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
'Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time...' Forgive me but this song from the 1970's English rock band Queen keeps playing in my head. You would be humming the song too if you woke up to Wall Street's 2.6 per cent jump overnight - the day General ...

SimCorp to award excellence in risk management

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat it. Are we again giving credit ratings agencies undue credit? Equity and bond markets have been shaken by Standard & Poor's warning that it might downgrade the UK's sovereign credit rating. ...