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AVCAL appoints ICAA exec as CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
The Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) has appointed a senior executive from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA) as new chief executive. Yasser El-Ansary will be AVCAL chief executive starting ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... better than expected unemployment the market should respond positively and and it will mean the RBA is unlikely to cut interest rates again in 2013," he told AAP. Gold stocks were being punished, with Newcrest Mining down 22 cents, or 2.1 per cent, at ...

Midwinter adapts planner software to client profile

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... advice (SOA) has been rewritten to make it compliant with the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms and the best interest duty. The new SOA focuses on self-managed super funds (SMSFs), portfolio review, portfolio management and research. AdviceOS ...

Australia's second SBB hits $10m target

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... the remaining $2.5 million, with a maximum yield of 30%. A spokesperson for Westpac said the SBB attracted significant interest. However, she said the small size of the issue, its lack of liquidity and the fact that it was unrated prevented larger superannuation ...

ANU fund adopts ethical investment guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... balanced mandate with exposure to all the major asset classes including local and overseas equities, property, fixed interest, alternative investments and cash which are overseen by a five person team that includes an investment director, equities, property ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... competiveness. Not surprising that Super Mario's erecting a fence - trying to jawbone the euro down by repeating his pledge that interest rates will remain low for an extended period and even hinting that some in the Governing Council were partial towards ...

ISA asks for scaled, affordable advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has asked the Government to encourage scaled advice within the industry superannuation funds. In a document outlining the organisation's policy priorities for the period from 2013 to 2016, ISA stated that "financial advice ...

Sonray director to face 10 years imprisonment over unfunded deposits

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
The sole director of Sonray Capital Markets (Sonray) Russell Andrew Johnson could face up to 10 years jail time over criminal charges relating to false accounting, theft and deception. Johnson pleaded guilty to the seven criminal charges brought by ...

ISN becomes Industry Super Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
Industry Super Network (ISN) has changed its name to Industry Super Australia (ISA) to reflect the growing role of industry superannuation in the nation's economy. "Superannuation is emerging to take a place among those institutions that are at the ...

UBS nabs head of Investment Strategy from CFS

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... State investment specialist as head of Investment Strategy. Tracey McNaughton was a senior investment specialist of fixed interest, credit and cash at Colonial First State for three years and has now been appointed head of Investment Strategy at UBS ...