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ACSA appoints new chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
Paul Cutts, managing director of Northern Trust Company Australia & New Zealand, will take on the role of chair for Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) following the exit of Bryan Gray. ACSA has recently been involved in discussions on ...

Super fund returns fall to just 3.7 pct

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
Poor share market returns are continuing to inflict damage on super funds with median returns for the 12 months to end September coming in at only 3.7 per cent. The results are contained in the latest SelectingSuper crediting rates survey conducted ...

ASIC bans adviser and charges former director

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
ASIC bans a former adviser for market manipulation while a former company director has been charged with dishonest conduct. Former client adviser, Lim Theam Chye of Melbourne, is banned from providing financial services for five years after ASIC concluded ...

Plan for Life offloads LifeRisk Online

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... its attention on its core research business. Stephen Dingjan, managing director of the Life Risk Group, said that the company will look at a range of services and products including quotation systems for web and smartphones, consultancy services, risk ...

Better boring than bubble

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... think less like an equity analyst and more as a banker. "The simple test is when you ask 'how much would we lend to the company?' In many instances, we're finding stocks at the moment that we'd find very hard to lend at all." This meant that since the ...

A simpler, streamlined Suncorp

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... ahead of the regulatory curve. In a statement to the ASX, Suncorp said that by restructuring into a non operating holding company it hopes to "convey to the market a clearer understanding of the quality and value of each of its businesses", namely general ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... "encouraging" and that he is hopeful this will translate into higher fees and ultimately, higher dividends for shareholders. The company separately disclosed that its funds under management (FUM) rose by over $2 billion over the course of October, or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... news, Orica Ltd and DuluxGroup release full year results. They will be DuluxGroup's inaugural annual figures, after the company was spun out of Orica last July. On Friday, the Australian share market climbed over one per cent to a fresh six-month high ...

ASF to distribute QFII fund in Aus

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
ASX-listed Chinese investment company ASF Group has signed an exclusive deal to distribute the Marco Polo Pure China Fund in Australia, and is targeting institutional investors for mandates. The Marco Polo Pure China Fund invests in mainland Chinese ...

Vanguard chairman to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... Australia's long serving chairman and founding managing director Jeremy Duffield will retire at the end of the year, the company announced. Duffield joined Vanguard in 1980 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia, where he served in economic ...