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APRA charges plastering super director and accountant

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has brought charges against a director and accountant of a superannuation fund after they allegedly contravened the sole purpose test and created false records to deceive APRA. Wayne Ridings, former ...

Telstra Super form alliance with Trust

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2006
Telstra Super's Financial Planning arm has appointed Trust Company of Australia Limited to offer additional advice to its members. Under the agreement Trust will offer individual personal and financial advice to Telstra Super members, including an offer ...

NAB rolls out in-house planner strategy

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2006
National Australia Bank (NAB) Financial Planning has piloted an in-house financial planning model in a number of Queensland branches, with plans to look at implementing it nationally later in the year. General manager, Adrian Hondros, says the move ...

MacarthurCook boosts retail team

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
Funds management group MacarthurCook has appointed a former Allianz Global Investors sales manager to head up its retail distribution team. Domenic Sita, former senior manager of retail business at Allianz, has been appointed head of retail business ...

Intrust goes public offer

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
Queensland based hospitality and tourism industry fund, Intrust Super Fund, has launched a new public offer category for non-employer sponsored and self-employed members. Instrust's chief executive officer, Brendan O'Farrell, said they will market the ...

Call for personal tax cuts to plug company tax loophole

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
A push to cut top income tax rates was flagged this week as the Board of Taxation chairman, Dick Warburton, said such a reduction would stop people channelling personal income into company coffers. Warburton recently co-authored a report comparing Australia's ...

AMP stalwart tipped to replace Genesys MD

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
It was exclusively revealed to the Financial Standard yesterday that Genesys Wealth Adviser's (Genesys) managing director, Ray Miles, would step down in coming months with rumours of a high profile replacement. A source also revealed to the Financial ...

We need professional education courses that set advisers apart: AFA

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has picked up the ball and run with it following last week's shadow shopping fallout, and the answer they say, is in improved professional education. AFA chief executive, Richard Klipin, admitted what keeps ...

SMSFs turning to managed funds

... other more diversified asset classes, such as property, [but] they will not be vanilla Australian share funds," he said. Kate Hage

Labor launches 6-point super plan

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
The Labor party has announced plans to finetune the nation's superannuation system, targeting lifting retirement income, cutting superannuation taxes and making it simpler for people to consolidate lost super. The Leader of the Opposition, Kim Beazley ...