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Astarra auditor banned for three years

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
Astarra Strategic Fund auditor, Timothy Frazer, is prevented from auditing companies for three years, after ASIC accepted an enforceable undertaking that he would not act as a registered company auditor during that time. The Australian Securities and ...

Adviser obligations need to be institutionalised: AFA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
Educating industry professionals and the public in general is vital if the advice profession is to overcome the reputation damage caused by events such as the collapse of Storm Financial, according to the head of the AFA. Speaking at the Association ...

Colley departs OnePath for SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
OnePath's head of technical sales strategy Andrew Lowe will cover the position of national technical manager Graeme Colley following his departure, the company has told Financial Standard. Colley is leaving OnePath after more than 10 years to take up ...

Cutting super tax breaks unwise: SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
The Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia has weighed into the industry debate on the Greens' call to raise the superannuation tax for high income earners. Green leader Bob Brown yesterday proposed a scaled tax on super contributions ...

Financial services digging deep for FICAP

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
The Financial Industry Community Aid Programme (FICAP) has signed up another three platinum sponsors for its charity concert next month. ANZ, Colonial First State and RNC Global Projects have joined returning sponsors BT Financial Group and Perpetual ...

ASIC continues Trio crackdown

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
The investigation into the collapse of failed fund manager Trio Capital continues, with the banning of another figure with ties to the firm. Tony Maher, who changed his name from Paul Gresham, has been permanently banned from working in the Australian ...

Solaris names new resource analyst

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Lorana Szeto will replace John Hodder who has stepped down as resource analyst at boutique equities fund manager Solaris to set up his own Private Equity Mining Fund. Hodder, who has been with Solaris since 2008, is also set to pursue "other opportunities" ...

Crowe Horwath eyes HNWI business

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Accounting firm Crowe Horwath has appointed two new business advisory principals, Mary O'Driscoll and Jim Softsis, in a bid to expand into the high net worth individual space. The firm said the appointments were part of Crowe Horwath's strategy to build ...

AMP: FOFA needs a rigorous stocktake

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
AMP has come down hard on the government's draft FOFA legislation, saying the Bill as it stands had "so many problems" a "rigorous stocktake" was needed. Appearing before the Parliamentary Joint Committee yesterday, managing director AMP Financial Services ...

Annual fee collation too complex: FPA to PJC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Bernie Ripoll has grilled the Financial Planning Association over claims the proposed annual Fee Disclosure Statement (FDS) as part of FOFA is unnecessary. Speaking at ...