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Maple-Brown Abbott appoints new CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
John Kightley, chief executive of Maple-Brown Abbott is stepping down in June and will be replaced by director Garth Rossler. According to a press statement, Kightley is due to retire in June but will remain a director and major shareholder of the firm. ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
My forecasts are gloomier than yours! The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has joined the fray of gloomier international forecasters. The World Bank (WB) started to get glum at the start of the year, quickly followed by the ...

Westscheme raises admin fees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
Westscheme is increasing its weekly administration fees by up to 20 per cent - following the footsteps of other industry funds hiking their fees in a bid to meet rising operational costs. The $2.4 billion Westscheme noted in a recent newsletter to members ...

SMSFs beat the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
The average self managed super fund (SMSF) posted a gross loss of more than 11 per cent in the twelve months to June last year, beating the S&P/ASX 100 over the same period, according to new research. Using Praemium data which contained around 4,500 ...

Superpartners hires SAP, CSC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
Superpartners has announced that SAP and CSC will provide it with a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. The ERP package is part of the recently announced $70 million investment in new systems, processes and operational improvements. Superpartners ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open flat on Monday with a slightly positive leads from Wall Street on Friday. Oil, precious metals and copper were higher, too. At 0713 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
The Australian share market was trading about 1.5 per cent lower at a five-and-a-half-year low after sharp plunge on Wall Street took US stocks to levels last seen in 1997. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 52 points, or 1.63 per ...

Insurance taxes should be slashed: NIBA

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
The average household in Victoria pays as much as 50 per cent more in house and contents cover due to government-related insurance taxes, prompting an insurance industry body to call for tax reforms ahead of the bushfire royal commission. The National ...

Parlie inquiry into sales commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Its game on for financial advice in Australia now that Parliament has convened a fast-paced inquiry into the role advisers, commissions and regulatory gaps played in the recent spate of financial services collapses. The Inquiry's wide ranging Terms ...

Bell profit hit by bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Stock broking and financial advisory firm, Bell Financial Group, saw profit after tax fell almost 60 per cent to more than $14 million last year. The group posted more than $175 million in revenue for the 12 months to December last year, down more than ...