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Prime targets investment in accounting firms

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
Prime Financial Group's growth plans centre on taking non-controlling equity stakes in accounting firms as well as recruiting them. The wealth management group has targeted growth beyond what it can achieve organically for the next financial year. Prime ...

Deutsche Bank dismisses mining fears

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... for decent returns in the 2014 financial year. "Miners are well placed for a top-line recovery simply if commodity prices stay roughly where they are. It also looks like China has stopped slowing so resources and commodity prices actually look a little ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... tapering of its stimulus program. "Equity markets are a little bit like toddlers," he said "They want the stimulus money to stay because it pumps up the market." "That's why it's a bit `bad news is good news'". He said flash PMI manufacturing data out ...

Howes to join AMP wealth management business

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
Melinda Howes, the departing chief executive of the Actuaries Institute is set to take a position with AMP in its wealth management business. While her reporting line is still being finalised due to internal restructures within AMP, her title will be ...

SMSF contributions down 25%, AMP survey finds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) contributions fell by $12,300 the 2012-13 financial year, according to the Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey June 2013. Multiport, an SMSF administrator and subsidiary of AMP, surveyed 1,950 of its client ...

Global aged care specialists eye Aussie market

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... prefer some kind of home care. "Studies across the developed world show that if people had the choice, they would rather stay at home," he said. "Baby boomers are more demanding on the services and the products that their parents are receiving, so they ...

Aussie shares best in a generation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... markets in response to constant economic, social and political change. What this chart clearly demonstrates is that those who stay the course over the long term are rewarded for their patience and discipline," Vanguard head of market strategy and communications ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... bank meeting, although most economists are confident the Fed will indicate that the $US85-billion-a-month bond-buying will stay in place for the time being. Tokyo closed down 1.45 per cent on profit-taking after the previous day's gains. The Nikkei gave ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... provide for people's retirement - the pressure on the Age Pension will be too great. "We can't assume the Age Pension can stay in its current format," she said. Lump sum payments have traditionally been the most popular form of super payment, particularly ...

Generation Y busts SMSF age myth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
Increasing numbers of people under 30 are setting up - or plan to set up - self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), according to a new study by Macquarie Bank and the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). The study found that 8.1% of ...