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Exceeding your MAXpectations

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... like TED because there's a lot to gain when you start rethinking the wealth management wheel. Many people are banking on it. Let's start with the numbers. Financial services professionals are forecast to manage $8 trillion of retirement savings in 20 ...

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... that most SMSFs are either unadvised or with independent financial advisers makes it difficult to communicate ideas to them, let alone products. "It's a huge market which is very difficult to distribute ideas to. You just can't get them in a forum the ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... coup, China-Japan/Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines island dispute, Ukraine - yet the S&P 500 index continues to break records. But let's just concentrate on the ones that directly impacted oil prices. Gulf War 1 in the 1990's sent oil prices soaring by 166% ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... and therefore these have not qualified as ESG research pieces or it may signal a lack of commitment to the ESG research." Let's hope it's the former. The shortlist Elaine Prior, Citi Research, Unburnable Carbon - A Catalyst for Debate Elaine Prior, Citi ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... US$1.3661 from the previous day. The kitchen sink did it. The lowering of interest rates and the imposition of a tax on deposits (let's call negative deposit rates as it is - a tax) are, no buts about it, in a way aimed at weakening the euro for a weaker ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
My oh my oh my and boyoboyoboy. There's just no pleasing us, Australians all, is there? Australians all let's not rejoice. No! Don't rejoice at National Statistician's official count that the economy of this land girt by sea expanded by 1.1% in the ...

FSC puts pressure on Ross ahead of FWC court hearing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
The Financial Services Council has challenged Fair Work Commission (FWC) President Iain Ross to declare whether he intends to stand down from the superannuation expert panel. The letter, which requests a number of clarifications on comments Ross made ...

FSC-ISA court clash to go ahead

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) Federal Court hearing against the Fair Work Commission (FWC) will proceed, despite the resignation of MTAA's Vicki Allen from the expert panel. The hearing, which will take place later this week, will involve Industry ...

Crowe Horwath to announce buyout proposal

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
Crowe Horwath has requested a trading halt on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and will soon provide an update on discussions regarding acquisition proposals. The company, which changed its name from WHK Group in mid-2013, has reportedly received ...

IOOF and SFGA union rattles top ranks

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
The increasingly concentrated Australian financial services industry is about to be shaken by a merger that will position an independent provider on the front row for the first time in years. IOOF's bid to acquire SFG Australia (SFGA) shows that the ...