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Conservative financial services job market in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... of the financial sector will remain cautious and will prefer roles that offer employment stability and reasonable compensation," commented eFinancialCareers managing director Asia Pacific George McFerran. "In a risk-averse market, firms will have to ...

Trapnell rejects 'no way out' stance by licencees

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... presented with what he called exorbitant 'exit bills'. "One adviser who left her licensee was presented with a $50,000 'compensation' bill which the licensee said must be paid in order to 'release' her clients," he said. "This was grossly unfair as the ...

Trio Capital action group to put forward Federal Candidate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... Australian Labor Party politician Stephen Jones, as a result of the Gillard Government's alleged unfairness in awarding compensation in the wake of the Trio Capital Fraud. VOFF was formed in February last year and primarily represents victims of the ...

NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
A federal court judge ruled yesterday that 13 NSW councils were entitled to compensation from ratings agency Standard & Poor's, investment bank ABN Amro and Local Government Financial Services (LGFS). The councils lost $16 million, or 93% of their capital ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... John Havens, fed a glut of speculation, with most reports pointing to a clash with the board over policy and perhaps compensation. LONDON - European stock markets chalked up strong gains and the euro has hit $1.30 on fresh hopes that Spain will ask for ...

Super fund backs News Corp independence push

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Super chief executive Graeme Russell. First Super will also be voting its shares against the company's executive compensation report. "We don't believe that any senior executive is worth four or five hundred times the wages paid to the employees who ...

CBA proffers Storm settlement

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and ASIC reached a settlement agreement. Up to $136 million will be offered as compensation for losses suffered by CBA customers who borrowed from the bank to invest through Storm, including CBA customers who are ...

Politics around LISC heats up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... struggle in their retirement," he said. "The rebate for low income earners making super contributions is actually compensation for the 15 per cent tax on super contributions. Without that rebate many low income earners would actually face a penalty when ...

Harsh ASIC ban on Seagrim slashed

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... said the ATT. Capital lost had been reimbursed to the Seagrim's Superannuation funds through the government-funded compensation scheme. The ATT provides independent review of a wide range of administrative decisions made by the Australian Government ...

Storm's victims counselled against settlement

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... that it would enable the banks to avoid scrutiny of their misconduct during the GFC. Levitt expects the value of the compensation claim against the banks associated with Storm to be higher than the $1 billion that ASIC has previously estimated. He says ...