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Report assesses super allocation issues

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
New Rice Warner research has assessed the current super industry's allocation position, including the issues around equity allocation, concluding that the traditional asset allocation is flawed. In its April report, Asset Allocation for MySuper, Rice ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available now

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
In the new edition of Financial Standard we feature the recent ESG RA awards, portfolio construction and profile Tony Lally, chief executive of Sunsuper, as well as all the latest news, views and regular features. Financial Standard's latest edition ...

CFP adviser offers ASIC EU

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser, including a five year ban. A former Commonwealth Financial Planning Limited (CFPL) adviser, Christopher Baker of Croydon, NSW, has offered to not provide ...

Goldman Sachs equities fund awarded AA rating

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Australian Equities Wholesale Fund has received the AA rating in van Eyk's Australian Equities Review 2012. This is the first time van Eyk has awarded the AA rating in Australian equities since 2009. The review considered ...

Finance and Treasury Association appoints new CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
The Finance and Treasury Association has appointed David Michell as new CEO. Michell is the former technical director and deputy chief executive of the Association serving from 1999 to 2006. He has 25 years experience in banking, investments and in ...

Bennelong Group appoints new director

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
Michael Pratt is the new non-executive director for the Bennelong Group Board and director of the board's philanthropic arm the Bennelong Foundation, effective immediately. Pratt joins the board from his role as head of consumer and SME banking, North ...

Social media strategy works: FPA

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
Social media use by the financial planning community is a simple, smart way for advisers to stay on top of new regulatory developments, exchange ideas and benefit their own practices according to the FPA. Latest figures released by the Financial Planning ...

ECT assessments spike on government cap decision

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
The number of Excess Contributions Tax notices issued in the 2009-10 financial year has spiked by almost 296%, according the latest statistical update from the ATO. The sharp incline from 15, 315 assessments issued in 2008-09 to 45,330 in 2009-10 is ...

Macquarie launches EM fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
Macquarie Professional Series has launched a new emerging markets fund that disregards benchmark indices in portfolio construction. Following the increasing appetite among Australian investors to high-growth, high-cash flow companies in emerging markets ...

APS joins forces with SISS Data Services

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
Advanced Professional Solutions has teamed up with SISS Data Services, ahead of the release of a new version of its SMSF administration software. Advanced Professional Solutions (APS), provider to the accounting and professional service industries ...