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PAS Lodges MySuper application

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013
Industry fund Professional Associations Super yesterday lodged its application to offer a low-cost product to members, under the Federal Government's MySuper reforms. The fund applied for a MySuper license ahead of the "average industry time frame," ...

AIA Australia improves adviser quoting and app tool

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... advisers in direct response to adviser feedback. It's understood that eApp Express - which lets advisers electronically lodge life insurance quotes and applications - has been designed to cater for the growing numbers who working via new platforms and ...

Board changes at Plan B

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
IOOF's managing director and chief financial officer have been appointed to the board of listed dealer group Plan B, after their company's takeover bid was made unconditional last month. In announcing the appointments, Plan B also said that Bryan Taylor ...

ATO stands up for compliant SMSFs on levy use

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... lodged audit reports on time last year, according to Forsyth, who said he believed that a portion of those who failed to lodge did not in fact intend to run an SMSF, casting some aspersions on the number of SMSFs reportedly operating. Earlier this month ...

Brokerage domination chokes competition: Paritech

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
The net effect of the domination a handful of large players have over Australia's brokerage market is cheap brokerage fees, but expensive administration and little innovation. That's according to independent player Paritech, whose chief executive Rick ...

Lion Adv cancelled/Hickie banned

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... contravention of the Corporations Act. Lion Advantage also failed to have adequate professional indemnity (PI) insurance in place, lodge audited financial reports on time and hold membership of an ASIC-approved external dispute resolution (EDR) scheme ...

ASIC bans Sydney adviser

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... promptly to remove those who do," said Peter Kell, commissioner of ASIC. The regulator said that Oberg has the right to lodge an application with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of its decision.

Mariner lodges TO panel complaint

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
Mariner Corporation has gone to the Takeovers Panel to try and stop the sale of Austock's property business. Austock last week announced plans for an $11 million sale of Austock Property Funds Management and its related entities to Folkestone Limited ...

ASIC closes in on SMSF advice firms

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has obtained interim court orders against two Queensland-based self-managed superannuation advice companies, following concerns that the firms have misled investors about their investments. The corporate ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
There is the good news. The EU finally came through and is about to implement its first set of "breakthroughs" agreed upon at last month's summit. Eurozone finance ministers shook hands on the a,-100 billion aid promised to Spain, with an initial downpayment ...