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Financial Standard returning soon in 2009

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The Financial Standard daily email newsletters will be returning soon. In the meantime, we wish all our readers a prosperous New Year, or at least a better one than 2008, and we hope you had a great and restful Christmas. Our daily news will start again ...

IFSA calls for more frequent valuations of unlisted assets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released a new guidance note to members with 'best practice' recommendations on how to value unlisted assets in the wake of the global financial crisis. The guidance note specifies the principles ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...

Superpartners to push for paperless super admin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Superannuation admin provider Superpartners plans to invest $70 million into replacing its core administration systems and other IT processes in a bid to become "100 per cent electronic" in three years' time. While there have been earlier reports about ...

Complaints on the rise: FOS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is urging financial services providers to invest more in staff and systems to deal with client complaints after it found a high 23 per cent increase in the number of new disputes this year. FOS has released its ...

Hunter Hall donates $1.32m to charity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Ethical fund manager Hunter Hall gave $1.32 million to charity this year and will keep supporting charities next year, defying other businesses that have taken philanthropy out of their budget because of bad markets. In 2001, the fund manager set up ...

IG Markets launches brand campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
CFD provider IG Markets will spend $5 million on a local campaign as part of a global push to raise public awareness of the FTSE-listed brand in Australia. IG Markets' country chief executive in Australia, Tamas Szabo, said that the campaign is targeted ...

Green funds to benefit from new govt policies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008

You are what you Google

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Among the top finance term searches on Google this year were 'superannuation', 'interest rates' and 'investment banks' but as to which keyword was more popular than the other changed state by state, according to Google Australia. The world's largest ...

ING head of corp affairs and comms exits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
ING's head of corporate affairs and communication Patrick Southam has left the company following a business restructure. In October, ING created two new business units: the corporate strategy and marketing and the retirement investments solutions. The ...