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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. ...

Chartwell director charged with $22m fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Former Chartwell Enterprises director Graeme Hoy was committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria on 224 charges brought by ASIC, including ripping $22 million off investors. In August 2009, Hoy was charged with two accounts of carrying ...

ASSET Super appoints union member to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
ASSET Super has appointed Unions NSW assistant secretary, Chris Christodoulou, to its board. Christodoulou was elected assistant secretary of Unions NSW in October 2008. He joined the union in 1981 after being elected Wollongong Sub-Branch Secretary ...

ANZ appoints Hogan as chief economist

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
ANZ has appointed Warren Hogan as chief economist for Australia. Hogan joined ANZ in 2005 and has been acting chief economist since Saul Eslake left in August last year. He will report to acting managing director global markets, Rob O'Callaghan. Warren ...

New board directors for HESTA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
Australia's biggest industry super fund for health and community services has appointed three new directors to its board. HESTA Super Fund's new appointees are Maree O'Halloran, a lawyer and director of NSW's Welfare Rights Centre; Prue Power, executive ...

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
"Absolutely not!" "That will never happen to this country." This was US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's when ABC News asked if he was concerned over a possible downgrade of America's credit rating. Worries about the US credit rating made the headlines ...

Fin services execs rock on for charity

Some financial service professionals have a secret identity - analysts, fund managers, financial planners and business development managers by day, rockstars by night. The Financial Industry Community Aid Programme (FICAP), developed in 2006 by a group ...

Vanguard outlines responsible investment stance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Vanguard Investments Australia is keen to dispel speculation that an index manager cannot comply with any responsible investment principles despite not being a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). "It's is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
Australian stocks are expected to open higher on Thursday with the Federal Reserve's positive statements about the state of the economic recovery in the US driving gains on Wall Street. At 0804 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price ...

Legalsuper reviews financial planning services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... relationship with a financial planner... so they don't need another planner with their super fund," he said. Meanwhile, a secret "shadow shopping" exercise on the services provided by the Industry Funds Financial Planning (IFFP) group found their advisers ...