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Regulator clamps down on conflicts of interest

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... provide legal assistance nor should it replace the requirement to seek legal advice. The Pensions Regulator exercises its powers granted under the Pensions Act 2004 to monitor work-based pensions in the UK.

State Super awards $300m-plus in global property

All this talk about global property must have reached the ears of the powers that be at State Super Financial Services after the group shifted more than $300 million of money out of Australian listed property trusts (LPTs) into global LPTs. State Super ...

Financial Simplicity powers Portfolio Express

Financial Simplicity has launched Portfolio Express, a model portfolio rebalancing tool tailored to the needs of financial planners. "Portfolio Express differs from many portfolio rebalancing solutions in the market in that it allows an adviser to also ...

US energy powers VFMC

The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has looked to the US energy and electric power sector for returns and is one of the investors in a power fund run by private equity fund manager Energy Investors. VFMC has bought into the United States ...

FPA member fined and expelled

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
... principal member from the FPA. This represents the strongest punishment the FPA is able to dish out under its constitutional powers. "These actions are significant. They emphasise that the FPA will act to ensure that our standards are maintained at the ...

Another HIH exec faces the music

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... Banking Corporation with the intention of obtaining a financial advantage for FAI Insurance; failing to properly exercise his powers and discharge his duties for a proper purpose as an officer of HIH; acting with reckless disregard in making false or ...

APRA got it wrong on AXA: AAT

ALEX DUNNIN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... concerns with the process undertaken by APRA in this matter, such that we believe that the legislation governing APRA's powers and their process need to be reviewed." The APRA statement nonetheless said that despite the AAT decision, the trustee withheld ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
... nerves were jarred by an Israeli military offensive across Lebanon and a Hizbollah rocket assault on northern Israel. World powers called for restraint to stop the fiercest Israeli-Lebanese clashes in a decade amid fears the violence could trigger an ...

ASIC bans two for their part in failed businesses

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2006
... that Graham had breached the Corporations Act by failing to maintain proper books and records and failing to exercise her powers and duties as director of the two companies with reasonable care and due diligence. Greg Tanzer, ASIC's executive director ...

Life insurers and 25 AFSL holders under ASIC microscope

... informative guide to reporting breaches. But a closer look at the actual data has allowed ASIC to focus its regulatory powers on some segments of the sector, such as life insurance. "We have identified life insurers as a particular industry segment for ...