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Mercer wins NGS Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The $2.6 billion industry super fund NGS Super has appointed Mercer as its administrator and financial advice provider to its members. Mercer announced yesterday its appointment to oversee the non-Government schools industry fund's member services ...

Timbercorp calls in administrators

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
One of the country's largest agribusiness managers, Timbercorp, is the latest victim of the market crisis, calling in the administrators after efforts to sell some assets to repay debts on time failed. Timbercorp's revenue prospects have been hurt by ...

Storm enters liquidation

MEDIA RELEASES  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants starts the process of recovering money on behalf of Storm Financial creditors after the Federal Court placed the firm into liquidation. Following yesterday's decision Storm Financial's appointed liquidators ...

Storm subsidiary in liquidation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
Geelong-based Victorian Families Retirement Investment Group has been placed in "provisional liquidation" after its parent company Storm Financial called in the receivers. The group was placed into provisional liquidation by the Federal Court in Brisbane ...

Babcock & Brown folds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
Babcock & Brown Limited has called in the administrators after its New Zealand investors rejected the company's plan to restructure some of its debt. In an ASX statement released this morning, Babcock & Brown has appointed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as ...

Three firms wound up by ASIC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... additional company in the group, 115 Constitution Road Pty Ltd, was adjourned for 14 days following the appointment of an administrator to the company on 27 February 2009. ASIC alleged that between December 2002 and September 2005 the four companies ...

Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The $27 billion Stanford University endowment fund has slashed and frozen salaries, trimmed staff numbers and tightened its budget as its portfolio shrinks by 25 per cent. In a recent media statement, Stanford said it planned to cut close to $156 million ...

SMSFs breach asset rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... some trustees effectively using their super fund as their personal cheque account. The latest research from SMSF administrator and auditor Partners Superannuation Services found that the top reason SMSFs breached their fund rules last year was because ...

Infrastructure fund beats downturn

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
The Private Capital Group's infrastructure fund, which counts heavyweights Sunsuper, Suncorp and BUSS(Q) among its clientele, has defied the market slump to report a 9.6 per cent return over a one year period to 31 December 2008. The Infrastructure ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
As the government moves closer to firming up its plans for how to deliver its national superannuation clearing house, new models are emerging regarding how it could be done. In the May Budget last year, the Rudd government announced it had allocated ...