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Trust advocates long-term staff incentives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Listed financial services group Trust hopes to take its 125-year-old operations into the next century through a staff incentive program that is better aligned with long-term shareholder and client interests. Chief executive John Atkin said that starting ...

Single-issue advice soars 59pc: ESI Super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Contrary to popular belief that Gen Yers are indifferent to their super savings, one super fund has recorded a 59 per cent jump in members seeking limited advice in the past three months. The fund recorded an increase in formal statements of advice ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
What's wrong with Wall Street this time? There must be something in the water when solid corporate earnings result still gets it down. According to Bloomberg, more than 80 per cent of companies in the S&P 500 that have already reported their first quarter ...

FSA starts Goldman Sachs investigation

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
The UK's Financial Services Authority is launching its own investigation into Goldman Sachs' alleged fraud activities, following charges to the firm by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US. The FSA said in a short statement yesterday that ...

Cooper Review unveils MySuper, officially

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
The public could soon have access to a new superannuation product called 'MySuper', which is free from trailing commissions, charges no contribution fees and is much easier to understand, under proposals outlined by the Cooper Review today. The preliminary ...

Intra-fund advice to affect 20 per cent of planning revenues

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
Advisers risk losing one in five of their clients if demand for intra-fund advice services become mainstream - but transactional advice could be the key to ensure advisers maintain an edge in the market. Cameron O'Sullivan, a financial adviser and director ...

Goldman Sachs accused of fraud

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents for fraud relating to subprime mortgages. The SEC is charging Goldman Sachs for defrauding investors by mis-stating and omitting key facts about a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower on Monday, on strongly negative leads from offshore markets. At 0719 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 48 points lower at 4,950 points. In companies news ...

WA govt drops GESB mutualisation bid

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
The West Australian state government has terminated the mutualisation of GESB and is instead allowing the state's public servants to choose their fund. This decision follows the Whithear Review into public sector superannuation. The choice for public ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Australia's superannuation market will be closed to new entrants under proposals by the Super System Review (SSR) that could effectively shut down competition, entrench incumbents and force small funds to merge. The proposals are in the review's MySuper ...