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SFG restructures board for best practice

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
SFG Australia has appointed Naseema Sparks to its board as an independent, non-executive director. Tony McDonald has also resigned from his position as an executive director of the Company. Sparks currently holds a number of non-executive directorships ...

Shorten demands clarity of stance on SG rise

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... that the extra cost will be covered from deferred wage increases negotiated in enterprise bargaining agreements, however Tony Abbott weighed into the argument on Friday, saying small businesses would be the worst affected. "This is a $20 billion a year ...

PJC releases MySuper report

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... Senator Sue Joyce, Senators Mathias Cormann, Nick Sherry and Matt Thistlewhaite, along with MPs Paul Fletcher, Alan Griffin, Tony Smith and Laura Smyth.

FIRST Super invites Tony Abbott to board meeting

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
Industry fund FIRST Super has extended an olive branch to Tony Abbott, inviting the Opposition leader to their next board meeting. The invite comes in the wake of Abbott's scathing criticism last week of the way industry super fund boards are run. According ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... metals and minerals stocks (down 0.18 per cent) and in the materials sector (down 0.14 per cent). RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said market players remained focused on recent news the Chinese government had lowered its growth forecasts for ...

Altius makes senior advisory appointments

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
Altius Asset Management has appointed three key industry figures to its investment advisory committee. Don Stammer, Tony Fitzgerald and Wayne Jarman will join the three Altius portfolio managers on the committee, which aims to advise Altius on domestic ...

Unions, AIST hit back at Abbott comments

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
Unions and super associations have responded to comments from Opposition leader Tony Abbott who blasted union involvement in industry super funds. According to The Australian, Tony Abbott reportedly called industry super funds gravy trains for union ...

Acquisitions and cost savings key for SFG

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... being faced with at the moment are some of the toughest I've seen in my 20 years plus career in financial services," said Tony Fenning, SFG's managing director. "Taking away the impact of markets, we are fortunate that we can achieve growth through cost ...

Big Sky members vote in favour of Australian Unity deal

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... in gross assets. It is anticipated that the effective date, following the final regulatory approval, will be 1 March 2012. Tony Ryan, chief executive officer of Big Sky Credit Union will become chief executive officer of Big Sky Building Society. "We ...

KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... Party... and alas, policy paralysis and uncertainty for this land girth by sea. And we all know that uncertainty is no good. Tony (Abbott) and the Liberal/National Coalition will be the only ones singing hallelujah at this turn of events. They must be ...