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Former Lonsec MD pleads guilty to insider trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... (ASIC) announced on Friday. The charges relate to an order that Graham placed on Feburary 26 2010 to sell 200,000 shares in Clean Seas Tuna across two client accounts. At that time, Graham was managing director of Lonsec and, according to the ASIC, he ...

Funds delivering 12.5% for past 12 months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
Super fund returns continued their recovery during January 2013 as the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbed again to now be on a 34-month high of 12.5%. This is a 12 percentage point jump in seven months. As in June last year, returns ...

Big deal day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... Barack Obama's State of the Union address. According to Bloomberg, "He will make proposals for spending on infrastructure, clean energy and education, according to an administration official briefed on the speech. Obama will argue that fostering economic ...

Bell Direct ranked top online broker

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... online traders in the Investment trends Online Broking report for the second half of 2012. The broker almost achieved a clean sweep ranking first in 15 out of 16 categories in the report. Among others, the categories included value for money, website ...

Super funds argue against unfair fee rules

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... larger account balances to stay in MySuper," Vamos told the PJC. Also speaking in testimony on what has been described as a "clean up Bill," Industry Super Network legal counsel Richard Watts said that his group, which represents industry superannuation ...

Advisers at risk over asset-based fees

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2013
... finance consulting group The Fold. While the Federal Government's Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms have done a clean-sweep of the industry, asset-based fees can be just as bad as commissions when it comes to creating conflicts of interest, said ...

Ex-Macq banker to head up Govt clean energy fund

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... banker starts work today as chief executive officer of the Federal Government's renewable energy investment vehicle, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). Oliver Yates will be the first chief executive of the fledgling fund, and will be responsible ...

Advisers must change mindset in face of FoFA

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... outside simply providing product solutions." Sheehan says she would fully support a heavy-handed approach from regulators to clean-up the industry. "There needs to be more bannings and more regulatory enforcement. Advisers and consumers would benefit ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... extra-ordinary that Australia's largest fund which will have to supply pension liabilities over the long-term has decided not to come clean over its climate position." "While investors all over the world continue to build understanding of how to protect ...

Public pension deficit exceeds $1trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... funding gap, however the research shows that their strategies might not go far enough. "Our approach was to start with a clean slate and recalculate each plan's liability with an eye toward an independent result," said Sielman. "We found that the funding ...