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Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... dragging benchmark indexes down from five-month highs, as financial companies slumped amid concern over growing legal scrutiny of home foreclosure practices." These two are examples of what you'll find on the blogosphere and cyberland this morning. Yes ...

Time to lift operational reserves: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... damage following a media crisis, reflecting the impact of the GFC on the industry's image combined with intensified public scrutiny. While there is no consensus about where these reserves should be held, nearly one-third of trustees believed they should ...

APRA warns on unlisted asset valuations

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... underlying assets that are opaque in nature," wrote Venkatramani. "APRA expects trustees to have commensurately greater scrutiny of these type of investments, drilling down to the underlying assets, in the due diligence process."

ASIC targets five unregistered property ventures

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Melbourne company director Mark Ronald Letten has come under further ASIC scrutiny after the regulator moved to appoint receivers to an additional five unregistered property ventures associated with Letten. On Friday, 30 July, ASIC obtained orders relating ...

Portfolio manager movement accelerates

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... Poor's. "As the industry recovers from the GFC and retires legacy products, structural changes justify our increased scrutiny of fund manager succession plans, which appear to be functioning relatively well."

Time to grow: Securitor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST OF THIS YEAR'S SECURITOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE.  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... behaviour to accommodate a new paradigm," he continued. Contrary to what critics say, Younger said that tighter regulatory scrutiny bodes well for the industry. "The undertones of the [regulatory] reviews are positive," he said. Highlighting future opportunities ...

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... product sold," he said. "It is up to the consumer and their adviser to determine how they operate together," he said. The scrutiny now being trained on life insurance commissions follows the relaunch of the LifeWise campaign that indirectly highlighted ...

On the shoulders of giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... industry growing to $3 trillion by 2020. "After more than 20 years, super is now firmly in the spotlight. The level of scrutiny we are facing now i just the beginning."

Military Super reforms under senate scrutiny

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
The senate is holding an inquiry into military and civilian superannuation reforms proposed by the Federal Government - including the management merger of civilian and military schemes. The shadow minister for veterans' affairs, Louise Markus, and the ...

Asia ushers 2010 with caution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
Investors will be wary of inflation and deflation risks, hedge funds will undergo closer scrutiny and ESG factors will take prominence - these are some of Mercer's investment trends predictions for Asia this year. Although the threat of sustained deflation ...