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Dwyer named fund exec of year

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... exceptional member retention rate and has prepared the business for major industry reform." Dwyer was selected for the award by a panel composed of industry leaders and peers. He will receive a $20,000 education grant to study at an internationally recognised ...

Folkestone forced to pay cash

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... excessive. The property business was also subject to a takeover attempt by Mariner Corporation, which applied to the Takeovers Panel after it claimed the proposed sale of the property business to Folkestone was a deliberate attempt to foil its bid.

Legal challenges face default super inquiry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... awards. Under option three, Fair Work Australia would apply the criteria, where option four would see this done by an expert panel, whose recommendations would then be adopted by Fair Work Australia. Girgis says these options would therefore take regulated ...

A question of survival

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... voting with their feet, said John James, managing director, Vanguard investments. James was speaking yesterday as part of a panel discussion on the impact of superannuation and advice reforms on the funds management sector, with Greg Cooper, CEO, Schroder ...

MySuper outside government scope

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... various funds that are available," said Girgis, who was speaking at the Financial Services Council conference, as part of a panel discussion on competition in the superannuation industry. Girgis said that the government was undertaking commercial assessment ...

Value still key in insurance

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... conflicted remuneration, but we're really talking to ourselves [the industry] when we talk about those things," said Clarke, at a panel discussion yesterday at the Financial Services Council conference. Advisers should instead concentrate on creating ...

Regulators on post-Trio watch

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... industry intelligence, and that's part of internal structural changes we have made in the organisation," he said, speaking on a panel comprised of ASIC and Australian Prudential Regulation Authority representatives. "ASIC quite understandably has had ...

No role for FWA in choosing default funds: CSSA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... Alliance has endorsed option 4 of the Productivity Commission's default super fund inquiry, namely that an independent expert panel and not Fair Work Australia should make default fund listing decisions. Gareth Hall, CSSA treasurer, said that if option ...

TO Panel rejects HDF complaint

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
The Takeovers Panel has said it won't investigate a complaint over the sale of the Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund made by Australian Foundation Investment Company Limited - a unit holder in the infrastructure fund. The Hastings Diversified Utilities ...

TO Panel silences Mariner

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
The Takeovers Panel has slapped an interim order on Mariner Corporation after comments made by its chief executive officer to the media. Mariner Corporation had applied to the takeovers panel to stop the sale of Austock's property business, which it ...