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Coalition signals super policy changes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... trustees and how default funds are nominated on awards. "If you just take the biggest funds, these are tightly linked into the union movement. The 10 biggest funds, as at 30 June 2012, had total net assets of $250 billion. Across these funds, there were ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... emerging-market economies and a deeper recession in the eurozone. Meanwhile, economy and finance ministers from all 28 European Union countries gave the final green light to Latvia to join the eurozone from the start of 2014. London's FTSE 100 of leading ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... investors received a negative lead from overseas markets overnight, with reports of further tension between the European Union and Greece over the country's bailout funding, and concerns about the impact of the Egyptian uprising. There were also further ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... of the finance minister, and after a report that Greece's bailout lenders, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank, had given Athens three days to demonstrate its reforms were still on track. LONDON - European ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... is over for the global economy, or the trade deal currently being negotiated between the United States and the European Union, or reports of another Labor leadership broil in Australia or even the viral video of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking ...

FIRST Super questions fairness of Coalition's super board quota policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... companies?" Watson told Financial Standard. Currently, five of the 11 FIRST Super board members are nominated by the CFMEU, the union representing construction workers. Another five are employer or industry appointed. Only one is independent. Under the ...

Free service may help advisers bypass FoFA costs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Curve Securities' new service, 'TD Gateway', will enable financial advisers to bypass many of the costs associated with the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms, according to Curve managing director Andrew Murray. The free-of-charge service will ...

McLean Delmo comes under Bentleys umbrella

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... additional opportunities gained from leveraging the national strength," Delmo said. Bentleys spokesperson Helen McCombie said the union is a licensee agreement. The Bentleys network, she said, comprises "autonomous operations that come under the Bentleys ...

Govt loses, then wins vote on super legislation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... sponsored Cooper Review. "The Cooper review appropriately concluded that the so called equal representation model, with just union and employer representatives on certain boards was no longer appropriate in the 21st Century," Cormann said. "We are disappointed ...

IM focus at slimmed down Russell

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... refocusing Russell's business on its investment management capabilities. According to figures from the Financial Services Union, 4483 people in the industry lost their job in 2012 alone. With the global financial crisis (GFC) still playing out, Schoenheimer ...