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Spring FG to expand across Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... has set a goal of 80 to 100 franchises in the next five to eight years. An announcement made public shortly after the company's first annual general meeting, following its ASX listing earlier this year, established a goal of up to 10 franchises by the ...

Governance becoming key investor concern

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... just talking. Doing these things, and therefore getting governance right, is easier if you take a long-term approach. "A company is much more likely to talk to you if they don't think you'll sell their bonds or shares at the sight of one set of poor ...

CIPRs not the entire answer for retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... to what extent at this stage. For some funds it will make a lot sense. A lot of funds will find the need for the life company structure and the guarantees and certainties that you can give to members will be very valuable as well," Rubinsztein said. ...

Sunsuper hires AustralianSuper portfolio construction manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... from AustralianSuper. Chris Tse joins in the role of investment manager, portfolio construction and will be based in the company's Sydney office. He comes to the superannuation and retirement business from AustralianSuper, where he was most recently ...

King Irving Funds Management launches

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
King Irving Funds Management has launched in Australia. Upon launching, the company has also released the King Irving SURA Pacific Alliance Fund, designed to provide Australian investors access to the Pacific Alliance emerging market. It has been seeded ...

Suncorp to drop aligned advice businesses

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... Financial Planning. The process will take place over the next six months, and the decision was made, according to the company's statement, "in order to simplify [Suncorp's] distribution model." Guardian Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning currently ...

Disruptive companies make great investments: Marsico

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... bid for a slice of the Australian market after receiving seed investment from the Future Generation Global Investment Company, the charitable scheme conceived by Wilson Asset Management founder and director Geoff Wilson. The firm's investment approach ...

ACBC adds further XTBs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
The Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) has made four more XTBs (exchange traded bond units) available on the ASX. The release is the company's third tranche in as many weeks and takes the stable of XTBs to 33 in total. The latest release expands ...

New mobile broking platform launched in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... back office systems providing CRM "productivity tools" for advisers and stockbrokers to better service their clients. The company's mobile trading solution is the first of its kind in Australia and its sophisticated trading services, which were once ...

PROFILE: NAB Financial Planning general manager Paul Fog

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... planning. People were doing it, but it definitely wasn't mainstream." Shortly after Fog joined MLC, NAB purchased the company for $4.5 billion (roughly $6.7 billion adjusted to 2015 prices), which was at the time widely viewed to be too much. (Then-NAB ...