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Macquarie forced to contact all advice clients for remediation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) must contact all clients who received advice from its financial planning arm, Macquarie Private Wealth (MPW), going back to 2004 following action from the regulator. Under the enforceable undertaking (EU) in place since ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to follow Wall Street and European markets higher after a slew of disappointing economic reports. At 0803 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,517. Data showed that US ...

Suncorp CEO rewarded for profit growth

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Insurance and banking group Suncorp's growing profits have resulted in boss Patrick Snowball being rewarded with one of Australia's largest executive pay cheques. The 64-year-old Englishman took home remuneration worth $9.12 million in the 2013/14 financial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened higher following positive leads from Wall Street and a raft of encouraging local earnings results, including telecommunications giant Telstra. Despite lucklustre retail sales data all the major US markets gained ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street rose despite a lacklustre US retail sales report and some disappointing earnings announcements. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 25 points ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
"Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah, Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah,...because I'm happy (Happy)." -- Pharrell Williams, 'Happy' A nice complement to Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down but..." when talking about the ...

Tribunal sees rise in super admin complaints

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Administration concerns were largest category of written complaints to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) for the June 2014 quarter. Of the complaints received 38.6% related to administration with death benefit complaints making up the second-largest ...

Stan Life Inv GARS added to Macquarie Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
The Standard Life Investments Global Absolute Return Strategies Australian Trust is now available via the Macquarie Wrap platform. Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) is a multi-asset strategy, which aims to provide positive returns irrespective ...

UBS Dynamic Alpha Strategy wins large insto mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
UBS Global Asset Management's Dynamic Alpha Strategy Fund (DAS) has received a $260 million institutional mandate from a unnamed government funds management organisation in Australia. This follows a $400 million institutional superannuation investment ...

New report stokes 'Compare the Pair' flames

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
A new superannuation report by the McKell Institute has fanned the flames of the on-going performance debate between industry and retail funds by highlighting the returns gap between the two segments over the last 25 years. The research uses historical ...