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Goldman Sachs wins Asia's bank of the year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... all-important China market this year and shown that with discipline and good teamwork it is possible to manage the conflicts of interest that come with being an investor and trader on one hand and doing business for clients on the other." The awards ...

PE investments - trustees must understand the risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... responsible officers, particularly newly appointed trustees and senior staff, as well as the ongoing management of conflicts of interest."

Whose side are you on, asks ASIC

... address at the FPA conference today, Lucy talked about a range of issues concerning the industry including conflicts of interest, the commission versus fees debate and the value of advice. Lucy said that in contrast to the old days, planners are no longer ...

FPA should lead not follow: Bloch

... said Bloch, referring to public concerns on the sector in the past 12 months such as the Westpoint debacle, conflicts of interest, ASIC shadow shopping and on the subject of commission versus fees. Bloch, appointed to the helm five months ago, said it ...

Liquidator gets 12 month suspension

... Dean-Wilcocks has been suspended for 12 months from working as a liquidator after he failed to disclose conflicts of interest to his clients. Dean-Wilcocks challenged the suspension handed down in April this year but this was later dismissed by the Federal ...

Not on our watch: ASIC

... Westpoint, One.Tel, James Hardie, Offset Alpine Printing and Sons of Gwalia and numerous litigation relating conflicts of interest between advisers and their clients. During the year, ASIC monitored 15 exchanges and financial markets, oversaw 4,415 licensed ...

Finding more value in asset consulting: Watson Wyatt

... group will remain the same. They will continue to provide independent investment advice free from potential conflicts of interest that their implemented consulting rivals have to manage. But there will be some fine-tuning. First, the group has re-defined ...

Hyperion chairman abdicates

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... Management, Charles Kiefel, has resigned from his role after three years in the position citing future potential conflicts of interest risks. Kiefel said there could be future conflicts between Hyperion's part owner Wilson HTM Investment Group's future ...

ASIC defends AMP FP action

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... commissions is still far from resolved, Lucy said the regulator had received 30 formal responses to their recent conflicts of interest paper, triggering further consultation in coming months.

No conflict, more interest on MLC

Amid industry calls to curb conflicts of interest when giving advice, MLC will fundamentally change how it values an adviser's business from a model based on a set formula favouring in-house products to one based on an independent market valuation. ...