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KPMG under fire on Westpoint audit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... the Corporations Act were taking place within the plaintiff companies. "ASIC sees a clear public interest in using its powers in these circumstances to pursue compensation for the benefit of Westpoint investors," said Tony D'Aloisio, ASIC chairman. The ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... than a year. The Treasury plans to buy failed assets and guarantee money market securities. The Fed invoked its emergency powers and announced a US$290 billion program to purchase federal agency discount notes from primary dealers and launch an initiative ...

Govt outlines credit reg reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... reforming regulation of credit products, the government has released a green paper outlining how the States could transfer powers over mortgages, mortgage brokers, margin lending, non-bank lending and trustee companies to the Commonwealth. Senator Nick ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... "encourage private investment". Flowing from this, the report noted that Infrastructure Australia should have increased powers to drive priorities, develop more competitive national markets in areas such as water, electricity and transport and ensure ...

SSgA appoints ex-Old Mutual exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
State Street Corporation has appointed former Old Mutual US executive, Scott Powers to president and chief executive at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). Powers replaces James Phelan, who returns to his role as head of international operations within ...

Præmium tackles UK SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... tax benefits of a managed fund." Smartfund is run on PrA|mium's proprietary portfolio administration platform, which also powers its virtual wrap platform. This technology, already administering in excess of $28 billion in Australia, incorporates a CGT ...

US Treasury to announce regulatory overhaul

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... plan to merge the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and extend the powers of the Federal Reserve by allowing them to send in what could be called SWAT teams into any part of any organisation it regulates. ...

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 ...