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Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... eligibility age to 70. A report by an independent Commission of Audit has made 86 recommendations for improving the efficiency of the government sector in Australia and for restoring budget integrity. In his most recent speech Hockey said: "Some of these ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... with financial stability, prudence, integrity and fairness. This should result in less costs, lower fees and greater efficiency in the allocation of capital," the release said. "As part of our broader deregulation agenda, the government intends to reduce ...

Risk management top concern for sovereign wealth funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... with the Dodd-Frank reforms. Another major area of concern was the management of data and improvement of operational efficiency. Commenting on the report's findings, State Street vice chairman Joe Antonellis said: "Official institutions are at different ...

AIA Australia launches daily risk information for planners

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... partnership with advisers, and their consistent feedback has been that Datafeeds for XPLAN will help improve business efficiency." "We know that advisers want to spend less time on dealing with the administration of clients' policies and instead focus ...

Bloomberg takes over UBS commodities indices

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... Family. "Benchmarks are at the heart of the financial system, and benchmark independence is key to the transparency and efficiency of global financial markets," Bloomberg chief executive and president Dan Doctoroff said. "By providing true independence ...

EQT to buy ANZ Trustees for $150m

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... to aged care services. ANZ said the gain from the sale is expected to be invested in a range of specific growth and efficiency initiatives across the bank. ANZ chief executive of global wealth Joyce Phillips confirmed ANZ would retain its philanthropic ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... procedures which do not unfairly discriminate between users. Advocates of HFT argue that the practice improves market efficiency, boosts liquidity and lowers the price of dealing for all investors.

ASFA and AIST push for tighter regulation of SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... greater and more formal coordination between regulatory bodies, and for there to be a requirement for them to consider efficiency as well as prudential oversight." The movement to SMSFs represents a significant outflow of funds from APRA regulated funds ...

COIN migrates onto cloud

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... in-house. He says COIN, delivered as a cloud solution, will save costs and eliminate upgrade-lags that would otherwise drag efficiency and impede performance. "Hosted by Rubik, COIN will be constantly enhanced for immediate application among advisers." ...

XPLAN named top planning application

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... interfaces, mobile functionality development and client engagement," Webster said. "Vendors are trying to improve planning efficiency by connecting planners and clients to practice workflow wherever they are." The introduction of scaled advice has also ...