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Bowen supports lump sum status quo

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
There is no evidence to suggest Australians abuse their right to withdraw superannuation as a lump sum, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has said. Addressing delegates at the Financial Services Council conference, the former treasurer said forcing consumers ...

FEATURE: Guiding the way to aged care

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
The new aged care reforms have brought in revised rules and more complex scenarios. Against this backdrop advisers will become even more necessary, particularly as more Australians consider their and their families' aged care needs, Laura Millan writes. ...

MetLife refocuses on middle classes with direct distribution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Based on the way global insurers are increasingly looking to the direct market to boost sales in developed economies, the way insurance is distributed in Australia looks set for a shake-up. In the past week it was widely reported across the Americas ...

NAB sells $1bn worth of UK property loans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
National Australia Bank (NAB) has agreed to sell A£625 million (AU$1.1 billion) worth of UK commercial property loans to Cerberus Global Investors. NAB said the sale was intended to de-risk its UK Commercial Real Estate (CRE) portfolio, reducing the ...

Investors vulnerable as property schemes shirk risk disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
Unlisted property fund managers who fail to adequately disclose risks are placing investors in a vulnerable position according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer said a review into the sector's ...

CBA to fund adviser education and association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has confirmed that it will provide full funding to cover costs involved with the tougher adviser education standards announced last week. As revealed by Financial Standard, CBA decided to raise adviser standards in the wake ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ...

Liquidnet increases access to India equity trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
Global institutional trading network Liquidnet has started the routing of orders of Indian equities on behalf of global members. Orders can be executed either on the India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) or on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) through ...

ISA FoFA report sparks industry outrage

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) report 'Commissions by Another Name' has sparked outrage among some industry stakeholders, which have labelled it as wrong, inaccurate and misleading. "Consumers are being misled by a scare campaign on [the Future of Financial ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
It was short, but oh so sweeet! Short was last night's trading activity in the New York Stock Exchange - 3.5 hours instead of 6.5 hours -- and we all know what the sweeet was - the Dow gatecrashed through 17K to a new record, the S&P 500 rose to new ...