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Westpac gives employees 12 months super pay

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
Westpac has unveilled plans to pay superannuation on unpaid parental leave for all permanent employees, starting next month. In a press statement released today, the bank announced it would pay up to 39 weeks in employee super contributions, in addition ...

PIS names new chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... the planning group's growth strategy. Following the change, Bennetts will remain in his role as chief executive of the parent group, Professional Investment Holdings. A statement from the company noted he will concentrate on the three-year business plan ...

NY firm defrauds billion dollar CDOs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... CDOs, which invested primarily in mortgage-backed securities. ICP's affiliated broker-dealer ICP Securities LLC and its parent company Institutional Credit Partners LLC also are charged in the SEC's complaint. More than a billion dollars of trades for ...

INGIM tackles retail, welcomes regulatory changes

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... provide the products that suit their clients so they can maintain existing relationships, regardless of what happens at the parent level, ownership-wise, or with ING Australia. Besides, the Australian market is big enough for all the market players ...

Challenger launches Bentham

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... Suisse director and lead portfolio manager, crossed over to Challenger as part of the acquisition. Despite the change in parent group, Bentham will maintain a sub-advisory relationship with Credit Suisse's New York-based Credit Investments Group. The ...

Wealth transfer strategies top adviser books

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
The type of financial planners that will 'inherit the earth' are those with the best wealth transfer strategies to recommend to clients, research shows. Latest data from the Lifeplan Financial Advice Satisfaction Index show that 61.6 per cent of 400 ...

Shadforth ramps up client book-buying strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... ahead with its expansion strategy, buying South Australian financial planning practice, Walmsley Halligan & Co and its parent company last month. Shadforth Financial Group has more than $8 billion in client funds under advice serviced by 110 financial ...

INGIM builds distribution from ground up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... it would expand its local product manufacturing and distribution to both financial advisers and institutions. The Dutch parent's decision to plough more resources into its Australian operations follow the acquisition last year of ING Australia by its ...

Savings boost for GenX and GenY

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
The government's proposed reforms to compulsory super give financial planners more reason to look after their next generation of clients. The recommended SG lift from 9 per cent to 12 per cent by 2019/20 will, unfortunately, mean little for those who ...

ASIC charges ACR directors

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... director wrote a statement in ACR's Prospectus 6, which was lodged in April 2004 and contained financial statements of ACR's parent company, Castle Investment Company (CIC) and controlled entities as at the end of December 2003. The statement recorded ...