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Citigroup shareholders reject CEO pay

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
Citigroup shareholders in the US have voted against the bank's plan to pay chief executive Vikram Pandit US$15 million. The shareholder vote, mandated by the "say on pay" legislation under the Dodd-Frank Act, was taken at the firm's annual meeting in ...

Australian finance sector jobs plummet

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
Australia has experienced the biggest Asia Pacific slowdown in finance sector jobs in Q1, according to research from website eFinancial Careers. Recording a reduction of 19% in finance sector job opportunities from the previous quarter, Australia lead ...

ASIC suspends practice licence

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
ASIC has suspended the licence of Australian Performance Financial Planning for three months for unknown reasons. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) suspended the Australian financial services licence of the Sydney-based planning ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
The Gremlins are coming back to haunt. Or so it'll seem as you read reports reporting that, once again, we're doomed. Yes Virginia, you'll be scared off your pants to know that the S&P 500 index posted its biggest weekly loss in 2012. It fell an earth-shattering ...

Fixed income fund released

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... choices within account-based pensions, bond funds and dividend strategies both produce variable income which is difficult to plan around with any degree of certainty. By comparison, a fixed cashflow product can provide bedrock income and helps manage ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
Don't you just love it when a plan goes according to plan? Wall Street remained on rebound mode while we were sleeping and so were most equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town. The S&P 500 and the Dow each jumped by 1.4% overnight in ...

Retirement funding needs aged care inclusion

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
As budget cuts to public spending loom, wealth providers are warning the cost of aged care needs to be factored into retirement planning. "The likelihood of care and its associated cost needs to be recognised at the beginning of retirement, not when ...

APLs a potential minefield under FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
While opt-in may have attracted the most heated debate, lurking issues around conflicted remuneration may pose a bigger threat with the ACCC already involved, according to one asset management firm. Instreet Investment's managing director, George Lucas ...

Investor negativity despite positive signs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Investor sentiment climbed a significant 5.6 points in the latest index report, taking it to -16.8 and the eighth consecutive negative quarter. Based on the fourth quarter of 2011, a survey of 1,004 respondents between February 21 and March 5 this year ...

AMP appoints interim Multiport head

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Multiport Managing Director and founder John McIlroy will leave the business in June this year with Libby Roy appointed as interim head. Roy was previously head of financial planning at ipac and will transition into the role in an interim capacity from ...