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ASIC to face legal action over Storm Financial

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... where the mines are," Levitt said. Justice Lindsay Foster has also allowed plaintiffs to make a freedom of information request to ASIC to seek the regulator's internal documents and records. ASIC was not available for comment at the time of publishin ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
The global economy will be better this year than last, but troubles in the Eurozone and the waning power of Abenomics mean investors will find better odds in the US and China, chief economists said at a Financial Standard forum last week. The videos ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... divested from direct investment into coal producers. While Stanford University's trustees are not obligated to follow the request outlined in the letter and the endowment fund acts largely independently, the letter is nevertheless significant as it shows ...

Standard Life Inv launches global equity strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015
Standard Life Investments has launched a Global Equity Unconstrained strategy. The fund is available to international investors, including Australian clients, through a SICAV structure. The SICAV fund (which is an acronym for sociA(C)tA(C) d'investissement ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... mandate. This would imply altering early next year the size, pace and composition of our measures. In response to the request of the Governing Council, ECB staff and the relevant Eurosystem committees have stepped up the technical preparations for further ...

Small tech providers tempt aligned advisers to defect

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... noted that "when an adviser or a group of advisers have a need for something to change in a platform, they will put on a request. Literally, that request will go to the bottom of a long list." Adviser Intelligence director Jacqui Henderson said that ...

Senate grills ASIC after it blocks 250,000 websites

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... further review of the websites blocked revealed that 99.6% of them contained "no substantive content," but the blocking request was removed, the regulator said in its initial submission. ASIC said it has not made a blocking request since April 2013 and ...

Challenger Care Annuity sales suspended

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... Life's net book growth, hence the company is not in a position to confirm FY15 net book growth guidance." In response to a request for comment, the DSS said: "The Department of Social Services is working with Challenger to ensure that investors are appropriately ...

Sophisticated investor register launched

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... registers with Cygura they are asked to provide their accountant's details. Cygura then contacts the accountant with a request to certify the investor's status under Chapters 6D and 7 of the Corporations Act (2001). Once the accountant has certified ...

Astarra director banned, loses AAT appeal

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... responsibility for the significant losses of investors in ASF (Astarra Strategic Fund)." The tribunal's decision follows Liu's request for a review of his ban, which ASIC ordered in March 2013. Liu was the Astarra Asset Management chief investment strategist ...