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APRA hunts down 32 funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
APRA is flexing its muscle and threatening to remove 32 trustees from their super funds. The prudential regulator has announced it is seeking information on 32 superannuation funds whose Trustees have failed to apply to APRA to be licensed. It is proposing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
The Australian share market was lower at noon as a sharply lower oil price weighed on the energy sector while weaker commodity prices hurt other resource stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 49.2 points, or 0.88 per cent, at ...

Macquarie EM infra index could become benchmark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
The Macquarie Research Equities launched Macquarie Emerging Markets Infrastructure and Development Index (MEMIDI) could become an industry benchmark for monitoring the performance of emerging market infrastructure companies. The index, which is calculated ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
The Australian share market remained weaker at noon, as sharply lower base metals, gold and oil prices deflated resource stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 28.6 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 5,680.8, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Adviser goes to jail for $1.5m fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
Perth-based financial adviser Antonio Pisano of Maddington, was yesterday sentenced to four years and eight months imprisonment following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). According to ASIC, Pisano will ...

PRINT and JUST to form Media Super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
PRINT SUPER and JUST SUPER are merging to form Media Super on 1 July - creating a fund with nearly $3 billion in assets. According to a joint statement, more than 110,000 members and 12,000 employers across the printing, media, entertainment and arts ...

Financial Ombudsman Service launched

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has given the thumbs up to the establishment of a new Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The FOS will represent the merger of the three biggest complaints schemes operating in the financial ...

From cash to prosperity: AFA

Financial planners will be given a helping hand at this year's Association of Financial Advisers' (AFA) national forum by some of the planning industry's best to set them on their paths to success. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the AFA said this ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
Treasurer Wayne Swan has donned his hardhat and launched Australia on a massive $40 billion nation building program centred on three new investment funds designed to fix infrastructure, health and education while also kick starting Australia's regional ...

Home loan fall follows rate hikes

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
Australian housing finance commitments for owner-occupied housing fell by a seasonally adjusted 6.1 per cent in March, which was much worse than the median market forecast for a one per cent fall. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said 59,371 home ...