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Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Countplus loses senior exec to Premium

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... larger, independently minded financial planning practices and have great confidence in Jeremy's ability to bring new firms on board," said Simon Wu, Premium chairman. In November last year, Countplus, an accounting and financial planning firm consolidator ...

APRA releases 2010 fund level returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... cent lead in both a five-year and seven-year superannuation industry assessment while other funds moved around the leader board. Meanwhile, Shell Australia emerged during the two-year space between assessments from June 2008 to June 2010, not appearing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... 0738 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was eight points higher at 4,734. In economics news on Tuesday, the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its first monthly meeting for 2011 to consider, inter alia, benchmark interest ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... Chinese-related Asian countries which are expected to be very quiet for the next couple of weeks. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board meets on Tuesday and is widely expected to keep the cash rate on hold at 4.75 per cent. "The market will be very ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... saw risk appetite globally dry up very quickly. Equity markets declined sharply." The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) board meets on Tuesday to decide whether to move the cash rate. All 15 economists surveyed by AAP expect the central bank to keep ...

Mobile internet tools take flight

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... operating systems will hit 150 million per year in four years - making it more important than ever that advisers get on board the tech revolution. New research from tech firm Ovum shows 35 per cent of global shipments in 2015 will be in the Asia-Pacific ...

PAS taps board diversity

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... practices what it preaches on gender diversity by electing Katherine Kasper as member representative director to its trustee board. PAS, with a membership base of 60 per cent female, agrees with the latest findings from APRA that superannuation funds ...

Related party asset exposures pose conflict: report

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
In its Annual Superannuation Bulletin this year, APRA reports on the most significant asset exposures of super funds, with some obvious, and not so obvious, findings on where potential conflicts of interest could arise. According to the report, retail ...

APRA report sparks fresh debate on boardroom diversity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... in the Cooper Review. The APRA findings showed limited improvement from 2006 until June 2010, with the number of female board members increasing from 16.1 per cent to 18 per cent. The majority of that increase found between 2009-2010 was attributed to ...