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Treasury Group director departs

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... a number of projects and remain on the board at Treasury Group until the end of the year. As part of his short-term incentive contract, Cooper receives $200,000 for the 2009/10 year and another payment for the first half of 2010/11 of $100,000 but forfeits ...

A stitch in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Finally! That source of international angst and condemnation, that much debated, much awaited Chinese currency revaluation is coming! It's good news for financial markets. Positive speculation abound after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) posted the ...

New mortgage platform to offer top commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
The heat may be on financial advisers to remove incentive payments and prove they are acting in the best interests of their clients, but for mortgage brokers untouched by these reforms it's business as usual. Licensed Finance Brokers of Australia (LFBA) ...

Budget underwhelms planning groups

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... report. Deen Sanders, acting chief executive at the Financial Planning Association (FPA), said the move could reduce the incentive for low-income earners to co-contribute to super. "We are disappointed at the government's announcement to reverse its ...

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 ...

Govt response to exec remuneration falls short: Regnan

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... that [executive's] tenure but that executive no longer has 'skin' in the game. In fact, the way the tax works, it's an incentive not to have skin in the game," he said. "We can have all the disclosure under the sun but until we have executives paid more ...

Goldman Sachs accused of fraud

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... protection on specific layers of the ABACUS capital structure. Given that financial short interest, Paulson had an economic incentive to select RMBS that it expected to experience credit events in the near future. Goldman Sachs did not disclose Paulson's ...

More super funds to introduce performance pay: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
Almost all super funds will have a performance component built into the remuneration packages of their senior management within the next five years, and there are more fundamental changes ahead in the way super fund executives and staff get paid as ...

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
The Australian fund manager behind one of T. Rowe Price's global equities strategy gives 'skin in the game' serious meaning when he poured all of his retirement savings into it. His parents are putting some money, too. Scott Berg, the Canberra-born ...

On the shoulders of giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
Today's generation of super trustees are reaping the fruits of the Labor movement that started modern super decades ago - now it's their turn to give something back by solving the next set of challenges involving superannuation adequacy, scale and fees. ...