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SMSFs shift focus to property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... risks with investing in property through a SMSF such as the uncertainties of using borrowing strategies to acquire off the plan (OTP) properties, acquisition of single properties with multiple titles attached and the use of holdings trusts for asset ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher. At 0800 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 16 points at 4,208. No major economic news is expected on Tuesday. In equities news, Newcrest Mining and Aquarius Platinum give ...

PJC hears FOFA lost in translation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
FOFA has lost its way, according to the AFA presentation to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services currently underway at NSW Parliament House in Sydney. Drawing a comparison with recent price wars between the major ...

FSP reviews group terms, eyes recruits

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Dealer group Financial Services Partners is reviewing its dealer group terms and adviser recruitment processes, with a focus on greater competition and service delivery, to be launched in February. The adviser group has been working on new dealer group ...

Female SMSF trustees narrow gender gap

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) said more needs to be done by industry and government to help women plan for their retirement. The figures also show that the average female balance relating to the self managed super funds sector ...

Default super inquiry receives positive response

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
The government inquiry into the selection and ongoing assessment of default super funds has been broadly welcomed within the industry. Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten revealed on Friday that the Productivity Commission inquiry would start early ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Australian shares have added one per cent in early trading as successful debt auctions in Europe and more positive bank earnings in the US buoy optimism. Energy and resources jumped after yields on Spanish bonds contracted sharply in its latest bond ...

Life insurance up 11.5% to $10.2bn

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... growth last year, climbing 11.5% from $9.1 billion to $10.2 billion with AIA Australia taking the lion's share, according to Plan For Life data. Plan For Life recorded 11.5% growth for the 12 months to September 2011, with AIA Australia taking 33% of ...

Intersuisse pursue Austock Securities

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Talks are continuing between the Austock Group and Singapore backed Intersuisse Holdings over its planned buy out of Austock's securities arm. Intersuisse, which has offices in Sydney and Melbourne but is part owned by the Singapore based Philip Group ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... strengthening the view of a collapsing Chinese property market. "About 16 percent of respondents in China said in a 2011 survey they plan to buy a property in the next two years, down from 22 percent in 2010, according to Credit Suisse Group AG. That ...