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New appointment for APRA board

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
Treasurer Peter Costello has appointed a new APRA board member to replace the outgoing Stephen Somogyi. John Trowbridge will join the board for three years, starting almost immediately from 1 July. In a statement issued by the Treasurer's office, Costello ...

Tread carefully in listed property: Perennial

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2006
Global listed property has become a vast and opportunistic frontier, with expected sweeping property securitisation feeding the hungry investment hordes. But the landscape isn't all sure under foot, said Perennial. Speaking at the Perennial Global Listed ...

Banks under growing IT security threat: Deloitte

Financial institutions need to get serious about their IT security after the latest Deloitte Global Security Survey found that more than three-quarters of the world's leading 150 finance groups suffered a serious security breach in the last 12 months. ...

SFE claims first ASX scalp

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2006
The merger that was once touted as a fait accompli took an interesting turn yesterday as Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) shareholders moved to oust their chief executive, Tony D'Aloisio, in order to win support for what has become a stalled merger with ...

ASIC charges four over margin lending scam

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
Four people have been charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) regarding unlawful and misleading conduct which resulted in Sydney investors taking out and subsequently defaulting on Macquarie Bank Margin Lending loans. ...

CARE and Vision break off merger talks

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
CARE Super and Vision Super have announced they will not be proceeding with a proposed merger. Michael O'Sullivan, chairman of CARE Super, and Michael Tilley, chairman of Vision Super, announced that the mutual decision not to merge had been arrived ...

Bravura set to fire with ASX listing

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
Superannuation software solutions and consulting group Bravura Solutions is seeking to raise around $40 million through an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listing and has just lodged a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

ING offers OneAnswer to insurance

ING plans to make insurance more accessible by cutting fees by as much as 25 per cent and adding extra insurance features on its flagship OneAnswer platform. Ongoing fees for OneAnswer Personal Super and OptiMix funds will be reduced by up to19 basis ...

Print Super rolls out insurance sweeteners

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2006
Print Super has announced significant improvements to its death and total and permanent disability cover for members, as well as a reduction in the cost of salary continuance insurance. The board of the Printing Industry Superannuation Fund, which manages ...

US fund fees plummet 50 per cent in 25 years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
US mutual fund fees have plummeted 50 per cent in the past 25 years, driven down by market competition and the impact of changing distribution channels. Research just released by the US Investment Company Institute (ICI) reveals that total average fees ...