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Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... year and US$95 in 2015. These justify the RBA's efforts to stimulate the non-mining sector of the economy. But apart from raising house and stock prices, the wealth effect and the lift in consumer sentiment that these and its successive interest rate ...

FPA confronts advisers with their worst nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... within their own dealer group. "It is time for advisers to self-regulate. If I was an adviser in a dealer group I would be raising my voice against any incompetent adviser, I would be making noise," Bobbin said. "The Future of Financial Advice regulation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... posted its largest one-day gain in more than three months due to signs on the day that the US would avoid a debt default by raising its debt ceiling. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 83.8 points, or 1.63 per cent, to 5,230.9. The broader All Ordinaries ...

Platinum offers $15,000 financial planning scholarship

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... and encourage new talent into the industry," Platinum director of communications and investor services Liz Norman said. Raising standards of education in the financial planning profession has been on the FPA's agenda for some time. In November last year ...

Chifley Super to merge with Sunsuper

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... and other industry reforms coming in, the administration work was getting out of hand. We were going to have to keep on raising fees so in the best interests of our members we looked at a number of options to gain a bit of scale," he said. "Sunsuper's ...

BT to double time advisers spend with clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... spent on administration and compliance issues. "We have also looked at what the client experience looks like and we are raising the bar in that area," Hall said. BT is transiting to a paperless environment where tablets and electronic devices will be ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... the US dollar on news that Obama would nominate Janet Yellen to take over from Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chief, raising hopes the bank would stick to its easy money policy. Tokyo climbed 1.03 per cent, or 143.23 points, to 14,037.84 and Shanghai ...

FIIG to manage new mid-cap corporate bond issue

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
Commercial print company PMP Limited has become the latest ASX-listed mid-cap to announce it will access the corporate bond market through a wholesale note issue arranged by bond broker FIIG Securities. The 4-year senior unsecured bond issue is set ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... points. NEW YORK - US stocks sank and short-term bond yields jumped as the stalemate in Washington over passing a budget and raising the debt ceiling takes a deeper toll on financial markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 159.71 (1.07 per cent) ...

Australia's second SBB hits $10m target

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... issued by the Benevolent Society in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac, has closed after raising its target $10 million. The Benevolent Society SBB, which will help fund the establishment of The Resilient Families preservation ...