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CBUS to review products to tempt SMSFs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Construction industry superannuation fund CBUS will review its product offering over the next 12 months in order to attract people in self managed superannuation funds. Last week fellow industry super fund HOSTPLUS said self managed super fund trustees ...

Two new La Trobe directors

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Two new directors will join the credit specialist fund manager La Trobe Financial's Board. La Trobe this week said that John Carrello and John Marriott would join the board after the company had received continuous fund inflows last year, and that it ...

New CFO for AMP Capital

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Fund manager AMP Capital has found a new chief financial officer to replace Jim Dawson, who is leaving at the end of next monthAMP Capital today said that Margaret Payn would take over from Dawson from the end of February. As part of AMP Capital's senior ...

Tyndall to sell Aussie bank loans into Japan

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Tyndall Investment Management has entered into an agreement with an Australian bank to launch a new loan product for the Japanese market. Tyndall managing director Mike Davis was unable to comment on which bank would supply the loans for confidentially ...

HESTA retains J.P. Morgan for custody services

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Health and community services superannuation fund HESTA will continue to use J.P. Morgan as its provider of global custody services after the contract was re-tendered. J.P. Morgan said that it had an 18 year relationship with the $21 billion fund, and ...

Media super ups disclosure, lodges MySuper application

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Media Super has lodged an early application with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to offer a low cost investment option under the Federal Government's MySuper reforms. The reform, part of the Gillard Government's overhaul of Australia's ...

ISN welcomes financial planner fee guidance

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Industry Super Network has welcomed fee disclosure guidance released last week by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission. Industry Super Network chief David Whiteley said that transparency around financial planner remuneration under the ...

Non-mining sectors must pick up the growth mantle

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Australian economists agree that how the country's economy transitions from mining-driven investment to other areas of growth will be the single biggest issue of 2013. Speaking this morning at Financial Standard's annual Chief Economist Forum in Sydney ...

FPA grief over new fee rules

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The Financial Planning Association has said it is "concerned" with a part of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission's final guidance on fee disclosure. Today the corporate watchdog handed down guidelines that tell Australian financial services ...

SPAA joins UN group

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The SMSF Professionals Association of Australia has become the first Australian financial services group to join a United Nations independent financial advice convention. Yesterday the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) said it had joined ...