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Group insurance faces 'perfect storm'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... blame. "I think we've act created a bit of a niche for the legal firms, and they're exploiting that niche. I think you can judge their behaviour and try to tell them to back off, but I think ultimately we've created that problem." Both Owen and Williamson ...

QSuper's Vilgan wins top business women's award

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013

Move the goalpost Mark

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
"Drat, drat and triple drat!" -Dick Dastardly (Wacky Races) Sir Mervyn King must be ruing the day that he finished his term as governor of the Bank of England (BOE) only less than five months ago (June). Now it's a non-Briton who'll be given the credit ...

Government scraps Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... Group included Challenger chairman, retirement income, and head of the Cooper Review, Jeremy Cooper; former Federal Court Judge Alan Goldberg; and former MLC chief executive Steve Tucker.

Financial Standard unveils Digital Dozen in social media

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
We're back! Yes Virginia, the financial market world's returning to where they were before - I'd say before 22 May 2013. You know the one, the day Ben Bernanke testified before Congress and was asked if the Fed is "going to tighten by Labor Day?" The ...

Accountant gets 6 years jail for promoting tax avoidance scheme

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
... sentence of 6 years imprisonment. The scheme led to a total of $1,392,696 in tax being avoided. In sentencing Stoddart, Judge Long S.C. commented: "These offences are of a kind that are serious in nature, as they affect the integrity of Australian taxation ...

Judge orders end of class action against WealthSure

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... approval. "Each of the identified group members could seek relief in their own right," Justice Buchanan confirmed. But the judge saw some of the cases for relief as "apparently weak in an evidentiary sense" and added that "there is no suggestion that ...

AFA Adviser of the Year Finalists revealed

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
... of nominations for the Award from right across Australia," Mr Fox said. "The nominations are becoming more difficult to judge each year, with many more advisers demonstrating their skills and talents and providing an example for others to emulate." Colin ...

Legalsuper board addition further corrects gender imbalance

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
Industry fund legalsuper has appointed the incoming Law Society of New South Wales president as the latest director on its board. The new appointee Ros Everett is the founding principal of law firm Everett Evans and is currently senior vice president ...