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Standard Life Inv appoints investment director

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Life Investments from JANA Investment Advisers, where he was responsible for business development, marketing and communications functions for almost seven years. Previously, he held analyst positions with IWL Limited and Coca Cola Amatil. He has more ...

Super funds 'fair game' for activist scrutiny

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... result of the increasing of portfolio disclosure requirements, according to Peter Lewis, director of Essential Media Communications (EMC). Under current plans, within the next year funds will by law have to publicly disclose every single company in which ...

Advisers coming round to social media

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... the industry through their enthusiasm and understanding of social media as an effective business development and communications tool," Kewin said. "Of those advisers who are connected to their BDM via social media, 59.9% interact on business issues only ...

Leading fund manager demands reporting rule change

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... ASIC is already aware of the potential for conflict and abuse under the current system and is now investigating communications between companies and analysts in a bid the "police" the current system of covert briefings. However, the fund manager has ...

SIFMA talks up Wall Street cyber defences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... decision to close the market. But the widespread nature of the attack reinforced the need for continual improvement in communications between securities exchanges, market participants and government regulators. "While the exercise yielded many positive ...

ASIC acted only when claims hit "tsunami level"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... Lampe, who is a Walkley award winning investigative finance journalist and writer who was employed by ASIC as an communications adviser in the regulator's media unit, gave an insight on how ASIC deals with consumer complaints. Lampe said that ASIC would ...

Platinum offers $15,000 financial planning scholarship

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... efforts of the FPA to raise educational standards and encourage new talent into the industry," Platinum director of communications and investor services Liz Norman said. Raising standards of education in the financial planning profession has been on ...

There is fear in the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013

Over 1 million customers breakup with banks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
... are now choosing to deal with and gain an understanding of the reasons behind their choice," Roy Morgan Industry Communications director Norman Morris said. Among the big four banks, ANZ had the highest proportion of customers at 4.0% (157,000) abandoning ...

BUSSQ members happiest in Australia

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... other Australian super fund, according to research by Investment Trends. Investment Trends 2013 Member Sentiment & Communications Report found that 83% of BUSSQ members gave the fund either a 'good' or 'very good' rating. Investment Trends' Uwe Helmes ...