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Legacy product solution on its way

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2006
... causing detriment to people," he added. Group managing director of Tower, Jim Minto, said the industry were prepared to do the clean up work, for legacy products that were "over engineered" at a time when disclosure was not as good as it is today. "No ...

Value of advice shines at Tupicoffs

Financial planner Neil Kendall from financial planning group Tupicoffs has successfully demonstrated the 'value of advice' after his one-off pro-bono work for a low income client saw them nearly $300,000 better off. Announced the winner of this year's ...

Govt will not ban commissions: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
The Government will not step in and ban commission-based remuneration, said the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, who urged the advisory industry to sort it out among themselves. Speaking at an Investment and Financial Services ...

ASIC pulls up reverse mortgage award winner

... association is self-regulated so they don't have regulatory teeth as such, but are working hard with ASIC to keep the market clean." Neither Transcomm, Money for Living, and until recently CBA, were admitted as SEQUAL members.

DB Capital earns $200m in venture cap deal

DB Capital Partners, together with a venture capital partner, ISS Group, has successfully completed the largest "public to private" scheme of arrangement in the Australian private equity market. The deal saw the venture capital partners turn around ...

New guide to short and sweet PDS

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has finally issued an industry guide in an attempt to clean up 'over-disclosure' and keep the message short and sweet. The draft policy statement, Better prospectus disclosure, gives advice ...

Secured creditors called on for help in Westpoint bungle

... monies. He said that one of the options they are looking at is to sue KPMG, the auditor which gave the property group a clean bill of health just over a year ago. "If we do not act now then we will get whatever the liquidators serve up because all the ...

Goldman Sachs choose greener pastures

... striking about Goldman's policy is that it is the first-ever policy among financial institutions to include goals relating to clean water, flood control, pest regulation and disease regulation. Far from a token tree-hugging gesture, Goldman's move makes ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2005
... plane orders, which prompted some buying in a holiday-focused market. But even after GM unveiled a sweeping restructure to clean up its finances, its stock bucked the market's positive trend and slipped 1.5 per cent. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2005
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker as a poor lead from offshore suggest further weakness for the local market heading into the end of the week. Precious and base metal prices were weaker and oil prices also surrendered ground, placing ...