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Adviser remuneration debate sparks fly

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... members as a result of sales commissions and higher fees over a 40 year working life. According to Industry Super Network (ISN) economists, an additional $80,000 at retirement age would provide the individual with an extra $120 per week (paid monthly) ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... keep interest rates at 0.5 per cent. Ms Deda said the minutes would be keenly watched by currency traders. "The consensus isn't that the UK will hike rates, but certainly speculation that the Bank of England will start raising rates soon." Meanwhile ...

ISN urges members to seek intra-fund advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... metropolitan newspapers to urge their members to seek financial advice from their fund. Umbrella group, Industry Super Network (ISN), said the awareness campaign would help members who just have a question to ask but often don't want ongoing advice subject ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... the smarts to make those decisions where you should be going out and trading. The ability to go out and make those decisions isn't as easy as it used to be and you've got to have the technology to be able to access liquidity in a smart, efficient way," ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... 10 years of wealth creation. But it can not go unchecked and unregulated." Diplock said regulators collecting reams of data isn't the answer either, because if they do they will have so much data they will have no idea what to do with it. IOSCO is already ...

Seniors question policy hold-up on retirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... review, the Cooper superannuation review, even aged care reform, will have implications on retirement income planning but there isn't a retirement income policy that pulls all these strands together." O'Neill said that after the GFC many retirees have ...

FPA slams industry fund 'one track agenda'

ELISE BURGESS, ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... Showing how venomous the policy fight has become, Rantall's comments come just two days after the Industry Super Network (ISN) published research by Rice Warner, a Sydney-based actuarial consultancy that has long been associated with advice industry ...

Super stoush over opt-in scheme

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... brewing over annual opt-in fees proposed under the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. The Industry Super Network (ISN) has come out in favour of the yearly renewal framework while the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Association of Financial ...

Ahead of the pack

FINANCIAL STANDARD IS THE MEDIA PARTNER OF THE MFSS.  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... aside more cash to meet those anticipated actions, which means you can't invest as much into mortgages, which means the fund isn't going to perform as well for investors." Following the GFC, Andrews said their model was vindicated because they did not ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... was that if the trend continues, they'll soon be offering stiff competition with stocks for investors' money. Nice story, isn't it? Until you look closer and see that the 10-year US Treasury yield of 3.69 per cent and 30-years at 4.76 per cent are still ...