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Industry brawl erupts over super network ads

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... Mark Rantall, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said in a release that the Industry Super Network (ISN) ads were a consumer fear campaign. "The advertisements promote up-front advice fees as an alternative - conveniently urging ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... debt crisis in the bloc of euro-using nations. The losses followed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's warning that now isn't the time to launch a new round of stimulus measures, comments that overshadowed a decline in US weekly jobless claims to ...

Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... Ordinaries Index fell by 1.5% with share prices of coal makers, steel manufacturers and airlines bearing the brunt. But this isn't all carbon tax-related selling. Part is due to the disappointing US employment stats released over the weekend and a portion ...

NGS Super sharpens planning focus

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... establish their financial planning services, dismissed the idea that financial advice is only for the wealthy. "This just isn't the case. It is vital that all members have access to financial planning advice and I will do all that is possible to ensure ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... uncertainty for investors. "It's just another layer of uncertainty which is not what we need at the moment. "The government isn't showing a lot of leadership at the moment and that's been reflected in the savings rate being so high. "People are taking ...

Medicare to handle compassionate super payouts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... doctors and governments and patients so they're quite good at handling large amounts of small transactions. APRA obviously isn't set up to do that, it's a regulatory body," said the spokesman. The criteria on which people can access super on compassionate ...

Snowball Shadforth planning for a FOFA future

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... implementing a number of projects to ensure we create an infrastructure that supports the advice. "What FOFA will actually be isn't clear yet, but our organisation will be ready and we have put in place a number of different ways to respond to the FOFA ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... that Finland's OMX Helsinki Index surged by 3.5 per cent last night and Norway's OBX Stock Index by 2.8 per cent. But wait, isn't this all about Greece? Now it's virtually assured of another 12 billion euros from the EU/ECB/IMF troika to tide it over ...

Alt assets fund deals with adviser concerns

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... and exchange-traded funds. "That helps us a lot with liquidity and pricing. One thing with liquidity is that 45% of the fund isn't invested and sent out to funds at all; it is actually kept ourselves in the fund. That can be run by a cash manager," said ...

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... generate beta returns. Regardless the debate between traditional and fundamental indexers, what is clear is that Vanguard isn't about to offer fundamental indexing to its clients any time soon.