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Shorten demands clarity of stance on SG rise

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten has hit back at the opposition leader's comments on the superannuation guarantee increase, asking for a clarification of position. Last week's passage of the minerals resource rent tax legislation with changes ...

Major product changes ahead for planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
Product providers are reassessing their offerings to the independent adviser market, according to ANZ Wealth, with new strategies under development to address massive issues. Practical implementation is centre stage for ANZ Wealth across a number of ...

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 ...

Match making service launched for advisers

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
Pinnacle Practice has launched a new service for advisers and licensees, aimed at helping them find the most compatible match for their businesses. The My Dealer Group service offers independent licensee/adviser compatibility assessments. "In many respects ...

CFSGAM tops global UNPRI rankings

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
CFSGAM has topped five out of six United Nations responsible investment rankings with the fund manager urging the local institutional market to see the real benefits in responsible investing. Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) achieved ...

Calls for super industry to up focus on beta

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
The super industry needs to look long term to correct a fundamental misalignment in the way funds are evaluated, according to Cbus. David Atkin, chief executive officer of Cbus believes that as asset owners, funds should be at the "top of the tree" ...

EU action has done little but buy time: Aberdeen

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
The solutions the EU has implemented to combat the Eurozone sovereign crisis are only magnifying the inherent problems of the union structure, according to Aberdeen Asset Management. Paul Griffiths, global head of fixed income for Aberdeen said many ...

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 ...

ETP growth attracts IOSCO concerns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
Rapid growth in Exchange Traded Products and growing concern about new synthetic variants has prompted international financial regulators to issue a discussion paper on whether and how the sector should be regulated. Exchange Traded Products (ETP) include ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
It really does pour when it rains. I'm talking about the pouring of positive economic and survey stats primarily out of America in recent months and the optimism it engenders in investors everywhere and the virtuous cycle that this optimism has started ...