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Compliance is a profession: ACI

The Australian Compliance Institute (ACI) has announced a new accreditation program to formally acknowledge professionals working in the compliance industry. The accreditation covers all industries where compliance operates, including corporate, legal ...

Expand FSRA to loans and property advice: CPA Aust

CPA Australia has called for the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) to be broadened to cover consumer advice in relation to loans and investment properties. Their call is based upon consumer research they recently sponsored that found consumers want ...

Bravura gets bigger

From a one-man band less than a year ago, financial services applications provider Bravura is fast becoming the name on everyone's lips when it comes to superannuation software solutions. The Sydney-based company provides the superannuation administration ...

Zurich launches phone based underwriting service for planners

Zurich Financial Service is giving financial planners a helping hand with the launch of their tele-underwriting service, a phone-based service that enables advisers to outsource the collection of their client's medical and other personal information ...

S&P gives Basis funds Five Stars

Standard & Poor's (S&P) have given five star ratings to two Basis Capital funds, the Basis Aust Rim Opportunity Fund and the Basis Yield Fund. The "very strong" rating has been awarded to Basis on the back of what S&P fund analyst Simon Scott says is ...

Finsuper and STA join forces

Financial services industry super fund Finsuper has announced it will join forces with Superannuation Trust of Australia (STA). Finsuper manages $426 million in assets for its 30,000 members while STA manages $6.7 billion for its 480,000 members. The ...

S&P rates Macquarie Newton funds 4 stars

S&P has awarded the Macquarie multi-strategy Newton funds 4 stars. The Newton funds use a multi-strategy approach bundled into a single investment fund that invests into assets with low correlation to traditional asset classes. They are medium to long ...

Principal property "Exceptional Buy": InvestorWeb

Asset managers Principal Global Investors have received an "Exceptional Buy" rating for its property securities fund, from independent research house InvestorWeb. The fund is an actively managed portfolio of Australian LPTs and non-index securities ...

GESB posts high member take-up

According to its latest annual report, Western Australian-based superannuation fund GESB is growing its funds under management (FUM) by more than $20 million per week, thanks to larger voluntary member contributions and higher member take-up of their ...

Colonial finds inaccuracies in S&P rating

Colonial First State (CFS) says Standard & Poor got it wrong when they said the fund was not looking to appoint another portfolio manager, after the ratings group downgraded nine funds run by CFS, following the departure of senior portfolio manager ...