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BDMs facing major changes without industry support

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
Business development managers (BDMs) and practice development managers (PDMs) are facing similar challenges as advisers, but they lack support from the industry, research shows. While the focus of regulatory changes and compliance has been on advisers ...

EQT to take Trust-Perpetual acquisition to ACCC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
Equity Trustees (EQT) will make a submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on the implications for the competitive positions of the trustee markets if Perpetual acquires The Trust Company. In a letter to its shareholders ...

ASX to introduce VIX futures contract

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
The Australian Securities Exchange is planning to launch a VIX futures contract, with a launch date earmarked for later this year - possibly as early as July. The ASX will provide a media teach-in to coincide with the launch. Known widely as the 'fear ...

Aust shares open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
The Australian share market is back in the red, opening half a per cent lower after offshore markets fell sharply overnight. The recent weakness in the Australian dollar has also led to many foreign investors taking their money out of Australia, including ...

IFM to cut fees after pricing review

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM), which oversees $44 billion in assets, is ready to set a date for its wide-ranging fee reduction, almost two years after announcing a pricing review. The Global Pricing Review was first announced in November 2011 and ...

Kinetic Super targets transient members with new brand

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
At Kinetic Super's official launch last night, the focus was on improved communication with a transient membership. 'Kinetic Super' is the new name for the Professional Associations Super (PASL), which includes RecruitmentSuper, Accountants Super, Australian ...

SBBs to be part of NGS Super's new ethical option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Industry fund NGS Super is currently designing an ethical option that will include environmentally sound investments with other ethical investments such as social benefit bonds (SSBs). "We are taking our current green shares option, and folding that ...

Only half Britons saving enough for retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013

Auscoal, AMIST and CGS get MySuper authorisations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Three more MySuper product authorisations have been announced this week by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) taking the total number to 38, but it's still way down on expectations. The new authorisations are AUSCOAL, Australian Meat ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself." - Publilius Syrus (Maxim 511) What parent would name his child Publilius? But Pub - the Assyrian who wrote mimes in Latin during the 1 BC - as he was fondly called could have been describing ...