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Equip to manage AustSuper's defined benefit schemes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... it opens up opportunities for us to partner with a high-profile and nationally recognised superannuation brand in winning major new corporate plans. "Our alliance improves our value proposition for employers who have both defined benefit and accumulation ...

New Fortnum advice business targeting accountants

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
Independently-owned advisory firm Fortnum Financial Group has launched a new business targeting accountants aiming to become licenced to provide financial advice. Fortnum Professional Strategies will provide class of product licensing as well as education ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... Both the Dow and the S&P had scored records in the prior four sessions. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite outpaced the other major benchmarks, rising 8.94 (0.19 per cent) to 4,660.56. Volume was light on the Veterans Day holiday; the bond market was closed. ...

Asset consultants urged to get savvy on carbon risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The investment risks associated with climate change will give asset consultants a major opportunity to differentiate themselves, but as yet very few are taking advantage of this opportunity, according to Impax Asset Management managing director Bruce ...

BT offers wholesale funds to retail platform clients

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... company's platforms. The Wholesale Plus Funds series includes some of the best-rated and most popular wholesale funds in all the major sectors and will enable advisers to build a diversified portfolio of funds at a lower ongoing investment cost. "Advisers ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
The Australian share market is lower as investors sell out of the major banks. CMC markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said Westpac, which was trading ex-dividend on Monday, was the biggest drag on the bourse. "Bank ex-dividends are part ...

SMEs embracing accounting in the cloud

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
The overwhelming majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) intend to increase expenditure on cloud accounting technology in the near future, according to a recent survey by Wolters Kluwer. A whopping 96% of respondents said they intended ...

Prime Super appoints fourth independent director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
Prime Super has appointed St Vincent's Private Hospitals chief executive Martin Day to its board as an independent director, bringing the total number of independent directors to four. Day is the first director to represent the health and aged care ...

First Super to vote against CBA board members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
First Super will vote against the re-election of two Commonwealth Bank (CBA) board members who served during the bank's financial advice scandal. The fund will use its vote at the forthcoming CBA annual general meeting on November 12 and will oppose ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... In local economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases housing finance figures for September. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday closed higher despite two of the major banks going ex-dividend. ...