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SelectingSuper unveils 2009 top super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
SelectingSuper has recognised the industry's finest, with more than 20 of the country's 400-plus super funds making it to this year's awards shortlist. This morning's SelectingSuper Awards recognised REST Super as the Fund of the Year, and paid tribute ...

ASIC takes MFS Group to court

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
The regulator has started civil proceedings against the former executives and officers of MFS Group and its three subsidiaries for alleged transactions that breached responsible entity laws. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

SuperFriend code improves insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
The Industry Funds Forum Mental Health Foundation, SuperFriend, has developed a set of Code of Practice guidelines aimed at improving the management of insurance claims where mental illness is a contributing factor. Launched yesterday at the AIST Superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to continue its recent run of losses on Thursday as Wall Street fell sharply on weaker economic data and a lower forecast for upcoming growth figures. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share ...

Gibson appointed interim CEO of City Super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
The $1 billion City Super has hired former ESI Super chief executive Karen Gibson on a six-month contract to lead the fund, as current chief Ian Prowse recovers from ill health. Prowse is currently on extended sick leave, noted a representative of the ...

Billionaire faces insider trading noose

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... Manhattan, and said Rajaratnam tapped into his "network of friends and close business associates" to gain insider tips and secret information about corporate earnings and takeover activity. The information pertained to companies including Google, Hilton ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
Here we go, here we go, here we go. If everything continues to go the way it's going, the Australian dollar could very soon be trading one for one against the big one. My Bloomberg screen currently has the A$ fetching US$0.9208 -- it went as high as ...

VTP appoints two more directors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Listed investment company van Eyk Three Pillars (VTP) has appointed Stuart Nisbett, a former top executive at ANZ and Rothschild, and John Vatovec, previously a fund manager at Lowy Family Group, as board members. The appointments come less than two ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... be some truth after all in the unsourced UK press report that China, Russia, the Gulf Arab States, and France convened a secret meeting to develop a multi-year plan to dump the US currency and replace it with a basket of euro, yuan, yen and the Gulf ...

Westpoint exec faces court

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
The former chief financial controller of the Westpoint Group of companies, Graeme Rundle, has appeared in court following two criminal charges brought by ASIC. Rundle, of Perth, Western Australia, appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court, Sydney ...