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Accountant pays $10,000 fine for $100,000 fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
A former Perth company director will have to pay a $10,000 fine after inducing a 70-year-old investor to give his business a cheque for $100,000 and then using it for his own purposes. Andy Kay Hooi Lim saw his 12 months jail sentence wholly suspended ...

APRA confirms MySuper non-confidentiality rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... disclosure of MySuper products will provide better transparency and comparability within the superannuation system. With so much focus on superannuation fees in particular, fund members need this data to make informed decisions." Industry Super Australia ...

Innovation to drive 2014 AFA Conference

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
The upcoming Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) National Conference is looking into the industry's post-FoFA future and focusing this year's event on the theme of innovation. With the regulatory environment all but finalised, the tagline for the ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... have begun to act on climate change, which is having a negative impact on the future outlook for the coal industry. This focus will likely continue as coal companies become increasingly difficult to be relied on as a low-cost energy source," he said. ...

PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Natasha Fenech has a talent for coming up with strategies to solve problems and a passion for all things precise. She has combined the two during more than 24 years in financial services and, most recently, as AMP self-managed super fund (SMSF) business' ...

AIST attacks big-bank default grandfathering

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... brought about lower fees, we won't know the full benefits until all default super is moved to MySuper. Given the current focus on fees in superannuation, members of bank-owned super funds shouldn't have to wait until 2017 for these fee reductions to ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

YBR Funds Management rebrands, launches new fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has rebranded its funds management business under the new name 'Smarter Money Investments Pty Ltd' (SMI). The rebranding also coincides with the launch of a new fixed income fund, Smarter Money Higher Income Fund, which focuses ...

Whitehelm appointed to advise $2 billion Land Account

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Global infrastructure investment manager Whitehelm Capital has been appointed as investment adviser for the $2 billion Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account. Operating under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005, the Land Account ...

PIMCO moves to calm investors in wake of 'bond king' exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... the firm's global macro fixed income strategies. Commenting on the move, Gross said: "I look forward to returning my full focus to the fixed income markets and investing, giving up many of the complexities that go with managing a large, complicated organisation. ...