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Tasmanian former adviser charged for no AFSL

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... with two counts of carrying on a financial services business without an AFSL, following an investigation by ASIC. The corporate regulator alleges that between January 2006 and February 2009, Vafiadis provided financial product advice and dealt in financial ...

AIA signs record number of corporate funds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
AIA Australia has won mandates from 40 small to medium size corporate super schemes in the last 12 months. Damien Green, chief executive of AIA Australia, said that the number of schemes that have contracted AIA for insurance offerings has risen dramatically. ...

BFG to integrate firms

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... said that it would combine the two separate businesses to create a single retail, research, institutional, ECM, and corporate finance offering as an Australian-owned stockbroking business Executive chairman of BFG, Colin Bell said that there was a clear ...

BGL partners with COIN on SMSFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
BGL Corporate Solutions (BGL) and COIN has signed a deal to provide software services to financial advisers with SMSF clients. The new partnership will allow advisers to import client data through COIN's software, for integration with BGL's Simple Fund ...

Health Super to merge with First State

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... is drawn from the health and community services sector, primarily in Victoria. The merger comes as many industry and corporate super funds continue on merger sprees as economies of scale become top of mind for many industry players. NGS Super and Cuesuper ...

ASIC cracks down on CFD trading

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... improved product disclosure to help retail investors understand the highly leveraged derivative products they trade. The corporate regulator released Consultation Paper 146 this morning, including a draft regulatory guide which proposes an ASIC benchmark-based ...

Invesco makes the case for global REITs

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... years ahead. He said that the US REIT market has benefited from the "reach for yield" among investors with Treasury and corporate bond rates at historic lows, and money market yields near zero. "In our retail funds in the US we have seen consistent inflows ...

NAB Super restructures alternatives portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... of funds that are cutting their Australian equities exposure and finetuning their alternatives assets portfolios. The corporate fund made tactical changes to its asset allocation in conjunction with its asset consultant, JANA Investment Advisers. The ...

Countplus names new MD, preps for IPO

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... integrations manager. Replacing Spurr as chief financial officer is former Count Financial senior executive of finance and corporate development, Stephen Aguilera-Mendoza. The new appointments were announced when Countplus lodged its share offering with ...

Antares wins ipac mandate

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... 20-year track record covering a range of fixed interest instruments across the risk spectrum, including sovereign debt, corporate bonds, hybrid securities, private debt, short term securities and derivatives. The team comprises seven investment professionals ...