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Health Industry Plan gets MySuper licence

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
Health Industry Plan (HIP) is the latest industry superannuation fund to have its application for MySuper authorisation approved by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). "This is a significant milestone for the fund and it reassures ...

BT upgrades EOFY platform tools

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013

Trio director strikes back and takes APRA to court

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
Former Trio Capital director David Millhouse is to counterattack the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) decision to start proceedings in the Federal Court to disqualify him from financial services. Millhouse has decided to launch legal ...

AFS advisers denied access to brokerage account

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
The Federal Court of Australia has denied access by former Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) advisers to the money in a brokerage account of the group, which would pay for some of the money owed to advisers. The account holds about $1.9 million ...

AUI takes on former Morgan Stanley exec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed Paul Banks as head of institutional business. Reporting to general manager of funds management Fiona Dunn, Banks will be responsible for building AUI's relationships with the institutional market. Banks ...

Super funds need to clarify DisabilityCare to members

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Superannuation fund members are confused about DisabilityCare and funds should be sending out the message that the government's program doesn't cover all life insurance aspects. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) senior policy ...

APRA takes Trio director to Court

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has started proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia seeking the disqualification of former Trio Capital director David Millhouse. APRA is asking the Court to disqualify Millhouse from acting ...

Court ruling on Storm, "a blow" to consumer action

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
The Federal Court's decision to approve the appeal by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on the settlement between Macquarie Bank and the victims of Storm Financial is "a serious blow to direct consumer action," the litigator ...

Cut welfare, give savings to defence: UK minister

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
In a possible warning of political arguments Australia may confront in coming decades when the national budget faces mounting aged care and pension costs, a leading UK government minister has proposed cutting welfare and diverting the savings to the ...

BGL releases cloud-based SMSF software

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
BGL's new self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) administration solution, Simple Fund 360, has been released to 30 of the technology provider's clients. BGL managing director Ron Lesh described the new software as the first real cloud solution available ...