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The Trust Company to consider IOOF offer

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
The Trust Company board will meet to consider IOOF buyout offer, which has stepped into the race to buy The Trust Company with a proposal it regards as superior to those of Equity Trustees and Perpetual. IOOF offer to buy the totality of The Trust Company ...

Data security emerging as a superannuation risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
Consumer expectations for online account access and the push for e-commerce solutions as part of Super Stream mean data security will emerge as one of the biggest risk priorities for super funds. However, most super funds are not equipped to handle ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after European bourses made sharp gains on upbeat Chinese and eurozone economic data, and receding investor concerns over a US intervention in Syria. Wall Street was closed for the Labor Day public holiday. ...

Citi surges but NAB still top dog custodian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
Citigroup has seen a huge surge in assets under custody (AUC) in the first half of 2013, growing by more than 20% to $213.28 billion, according to half-yearly sector figures released by the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA). Citi now ...

Kenyon Partners renames to Connect Financial

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
Kenyon Partners has changed its name to Connect Financial Service Brokers in a move to better reflect the company's role after a change of ownership. Vinvest Investments purchased Kenyon Partners in 2012. The company was originally founded by Alan Kenyon ...

CFS adds Tyndall Australian share fund to FirstWrap

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
Tyndall AM's Tyndall Australian Share Concentrated Fund has been added to Colonial First State's FirstWrap platform, as advisers see clients focus on total returns and become increasingly more risk aware. The fund was launched to the retail market in ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... you going to tighten by Labor Day?" Tonight we're going back to the future.A Going back to that fateful day on the 22nd of May -- when Texas Republican and head of the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal Reserve ...

Wealthy parents fear kids can't handle family fortune

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
Almost three-fifths of wealthy parents lack confidence in their children's ability to handle a large financial inheritance, according to a recent survey from Bank of America private wealth subsidiary U.S. Trust. The private bank asked 711 Americans ...

ASIC issues governance warning on local emerging market companies

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a warning over corporate governance in Australian companies that have significant operations in emerging markets, saying these companies are more susceptible to collapse than domestically ...

Twitter co-creator to speak at AFA Conference

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
Twitter co-creator Dom Sagolla will be speaking about how the social network started at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Conference in October. Sagolla who has left Twitter, now heads a successful phone applications company. "Dom has the ...