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Sherry withdraws from Lift inquiry

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
Minister for superannuation and corporate law Nick Sherry has removed himself from investigations into Lift Capital Partners after he found out two members of his extended family had investments with the embattled firm. Sherry informed the acting Prime ...

LIFT Capital collapses

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Margin lender LIFT Capital follows the collapse of Opes Prime and has called in McGrathNicol as voluntary administrators yesterday. McGrathNicol administrators, Tony McGrath and Joseph Hayes, are investigating the firm. They have not provided the reasons ...

ASIC investigates Opes Prime

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
Opes Prime Stockbroking is under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after the firm found a number of cash and stock movement irregularities in a small number of accounts. ASIC has created a team, which will ...

ITG focuses on after-tax benchmarks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Finance technology firm Investment Technology Group (ITG) has found a way to combine advanced technology with improved market data quality to make customised after-tax benchmarks a reality. According to ITG product manager for market data analytics ...

Choice system to cost $90m: CitiStreet

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... to $30 million per year, and could reach $90 million by 2012, according to CitiStreet. The global retirement plan administrator revealed the findings in a whitepaper and is now calling for a better super payments strategy as the government's Super Clearing ...

Good billing helps SMSF admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... right billing arrangement in place, said Andrew Bloore, chief executive of smartsuper, a self-managed super fund administrator. Speaking at the SPAA conference last week, Bloore said some accounting practices fear they could lose control of their clients' ...

Investment infrastructure needs upgrade: ACSA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
Australia must update its investment infrastructure and abolish some taxes to attract more foreign investors, according to a custodial expert. Speaking at the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) conference, Bryan Gray, chairman at ACSA ...

Ausmaq and Praemium form IT pact

NAB-owned managed funds administrator Ausmaq and listed portfolio administrator Praemium have joined forces to provide a combined managed fund trading, administration and reporting facilities for investors. Under the deal, both companies will integrate ...

Praemium's SMSF market share soars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Praemium has become one of Australia's largest self managed super fund (SMSF) administrators after its funds under administration grew almost 50 per cent to $11 billion in twelve months. The firm has a three per cent market share in the SMSF space with ...

New CFO for Superpartners team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
Australia's largest superannuation administrator, Superpartners, has appointed Perry Abbott as chief financial officer. Previously the director, global commercial and operations of Computer Sciences Corporation, Abbott will be spearheading financial ...