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La Trobe buys super specialists IE Group

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
National mortgage lender and funds management firm La Trobe Financial Services has bought third party financial services firm, Implementation Efficiency Group (IEG). Greg O'Neill, chief executive of Melbourne-based La Trobe, said the purchase had been ...

Roadmap to life insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... direct market is essential for that, with the likelihood it will grow to consume 20 per cent of the market," said Meller. Neil Sprackling, director and head of client markets life and health, Swiss Re added that there will be a necessary expanding of ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... with super funds tightlipped on the possible impact of exposure and advisors looking to their portfolios. Professor Andrew O'Neil, director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, said the idea that reconstruction would stimulate the Japanese ...

AMP positions senior AXA staff

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... Services. That includes general product manager Ian Campbell, general manager financial advice networks Andrew Waddell and Neil Swindells, chief executive ipac and head of advice. However, AXA's General Manager Sales & Marketing Adrian Emery and Chief ...

Seniors question policy hold-up on retirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
National Seniors Australia is tired of waiting for the government to make up its mind on retirement incomes policy and has demanded the government step up with some clarity on what the regulations will be. Speaking at the 2011 SPAA SMSF National Conference ...

ASIC catches Camelot Derivatives

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Melbourne-based derivatives dealer, Camelot Derivatives (Camelot) and its sole director, Neil Walter King, consent to interim injunctions brought by Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC). Camelot is a dealing company specialising ...

Govt lays ground for Stronger Super

GOVT RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
Paul Costello, former Future Fund general manager, has been named the chair of the Stronger Super Peak Consultative Group, a panel made up of the 15 representatives of key stakeholders in the superannuation sector. The panel has been tasked with advising ...

UCSuper makes debut in infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... infrastructure for the first time to its portfolio - awarding mandates to Hastings Funds Management and Plenary Investment Management. Neil Kent, general manager of UCSuper, said the infrastructure holdings will be added to the fund's alternatives portfolio ...

Adviser sentenced to 8yrs imprisonment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... former financial adviser receives a jail sentence after pleading guilty to 13 fraud charges following an ASIC investigation. Neil Francis Dodd was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in Townsville's District Court after an ASIC investigation concluded ...

FPA appoints three directors

FPA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
Certified financial planners Neil Kendall, Peter O'Toole and Julie Matheson have been elected to the Financial Planning Association board. After 23 candidates stood for the election, Kendall, O'Toole and Matheson were elected as practitioner members ...