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FPA and AFA call for reform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... recommendations include clarifying the role of financial planners and advisers and the need to reform retail client compensation. Lifting the entry standards to become a financial planner and adviser is also an issue being argued by the FPA and AFA. ...

ASIC approves Opes Prime settlement

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... claims ASIC had against each of them. ASIC had identified two potential claims. The first was a potential claim for compensation due to an alleged contravention of the managed investment provisions of the Corporations Act (the Act) by Opes Prime and ...

AIA appoints head of group operations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... joined AIA Australia in 2004 bringing with her 10 years of claims management experience across the Life and Workers' Compensation industries. After joining AIA Australia as a claims assessor almost six years ago, Canavan quickly progressed through the ...

BlueMountain to post record returns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... friction in relatively illiquid markets. We think in the future, we're going to see more of this longer lock ups and compensation for those providing the liquidity," he said. Besides the new redemption and liquidity mechanisms, Bryant stressed that the ...

J.P. Morgan extends link with ACC

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
J.P. Morgan has been selected to provide custodial, accounting and administration services to the Accident Compensation Corporation's (ACC) New Zealand portfolio. This means the firm manages around $5.5 billion in assets in total for the ACC after J.P. ...

Planners face higher PI fees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... all schemes will be required to deal with claims worth up to $500,000 but they will be able to limit the amount of compensation payable to less that amount. From January 2012, external dispute resolution (EDR) schemes will only be allowed to limit the ...

Fee disclosure for intermediaries: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... vehicle. CalPERS is also calling for disclosures to include agents' identities, resumes of key people, description of compensation and services, copies of agreements, and if the agent is registered with the SEC or as a lobbyist. The new guidelines would ...

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... Merrill Lynch & Co., people familiar with the proposal said.' "The concepts we are considering would not increase total compensation," Brian Moynihan, Bank of America's president of investment banking and wealth management, wrote yesterday in a memo ...

Treasure for trash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... would not be able to hand out bonuses to their executives. Note that 'the plan' does not include company executive compensation restrictions. Selling these garbage below the price recorded on their balance sheets would result in capital losses, then ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. The logic behind this, it said, is to ensure that the fund is "receiving fair compensation for its investment, while providing liquidity to the Alaskan economy through the state's banking system." The Alaskan Permanent ...