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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite Wall Street falling slightly ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony on the economic outlook to Congress. At 0635 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract ...

Local funds ignore US $10.6tr pension market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Homegrown fund managers should cast their net to the wider $10.6 trillion pension market in the US, just one of the global opportunities they can use the broaden their client base. Brett Himbury, head of $40 billion Industry Funds Management (IFM) ...

PIPA suspends Money Choice director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... services. "PIPA will not tolerate any member who acts unlawfully and not within the best interests of their clients," PIPA chair Ben Kingsley said. "Under our constitution, Money Choice and Mr George as sole director may also face financial penalties ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Dive! Dive! Dive! You've heard the news - our very own currency is top of the pops no more, it's made one hell of celebrity splash over the past week as it fell below parity against the big dollar and continued to head down ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street again set new records. At 0630 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was up 19 points at 5,212. In economic news on Monday, the Commonwealth Bank business sales indicator ...

ATO release another SMSF self help guide

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
Reflecting the rise and rise of self directed self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investors, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued a publication aimed at explaining to SMSF trustees the rules around how they can pay benefits from their ...

Standard Life Inv Absolute Return Bond fund open to Aussie investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
Standard Life Investments (SLI) is looking to build on the success of its top-selling Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund by making its Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies fund available to Australian investors. Like GARS, the Absolute ...

Coalition super plan to harm retirees, low income earners

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
The Coalition's announcement that they would delay the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) increase would see millions of Australians move into retirement with inadequate savings according to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). Last ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... if it persists, would also put downward pressure on inflation. Having said all these, I still defer to my big namesake, Big Ben Bernanke. He'll sort these out when he speaks before the Bard College at Simon's Rock Commencement, Great Barrington, Massachusetts ...

Enshrinement of "financial planner" closer to becoming law

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
The terms "financial planner" and "financial adviser" took a step closer to being enshrined in law after a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) was asked to provide a report on the issue. With the Coalition confirming they would not oppose the bill ...