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Insurers and super funds tackle costs of mental illness

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... Australia has contributed more than $2.5m to SuperFriend through our industry fund partners." Hannover Life Re chief executive Tom Grogan said, "We are fully committed to the initiative and our continuing support is guaranteed."

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... home sales and property prices all came in better than markets hoped for. Hoped for? Did I just say hoped for? Didn't every Tom, Dick and Harry and their uncle and their uncle's dog just go on a selling spree these past few days because they thought ...

AIST employee to take legal action over workplace dispute

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... unreasonable, it would have been reasonable to have Ms Rind return to work for three days a week," Lewin said. AIST chief executive Tom Garcia told Financial Standard he could not comment on the specifics of the case for legal reasons but said the industry ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
I beg your pardon, but was that it? Was that the song we've waited all this time for Big Benny to sing? The song remains the same to me. The same tune Ben Bernanke sang on the 22nd of May. The June FOMC statement was practically a rehash of the one ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... the markets Ben's words could be. Absent the why, how much, how soon and how often, Ben's statements remain subject to every Tom, Dick and Harry's interpretation. And then we'll have to go through this whole episode again for another month or so until ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... In the new edition of Financial Standard, we look at high net worth investing strategies and profile AIST chief executive Tom Garcia. You can read them on your iPad by downloading Financial Standard iPad© app free from the App store, for a limited time. ...

PJC to hold TASA hearing tomorrow

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
The Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) on Corporations and Financial Services will hold its first hearing on the amendment of the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) tomorrow. The inquiry will be held in Sydney and is scheduled to start at 2.15 pm. The PJC ...

FPA, AFA to lobby MPs for TASA delay

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
The main financial advice associations will lobby members of Parliament today to delay the approval of tax amendments to the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA), amendments they believe will negatively affect financial advisers. The bill is scheduled to ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
The Australian stock market was flat at noon, with gains by big miners offset by weakness in the financial sector. The market opened about 0.3 per cent firmer as investors took their cues from a positive lead from Wall Street, but shares drifted back ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Platinum Asset Management's (Platinum) chief executive Kerr Neilson is confident that the fund will be able to turn around a period of underperformance in its flagship International Fund, saying that the current state of the market has turned to favour ...