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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has improved a little from its poor start but is still trading lower, after a sharp fall on markets in the United States and Europe overnight. The market slide was generated partly by an International Monetary Fund report ...

YBR's cash fund receives new ratings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... ratings for its Smarter Money Active Cash Fund. Australia Ratings, a new credit rating agency founded by former Standard & Poor's Managing director Chris Dalton, has given the fund an A rating. Dalton said this means the fund "has a high degree of creditworthiness" ...

Poor advice forces changes to SMSF practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... self-managed super fund (SMSF) advice business has been forced to improve its advice processes over concerns that it was providing poor advice to clients. Melbourne-based Interprac Financial Planning agreed to address concerns from the Australian Securities ...

Extend MySuper to retirement: ASFA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
Regulation of superannuation should be designed for the whole of life, incorporating accumulation and retirement, if there is to be stability and product innovation, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). In its submission ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Have dip... will buy. That's last week's story on Wall Street - the big dip on Thursday followed by a rebound the next day - and only because I got tired (as you too probably have) of hearing of what's developing to be Wall Street's 2014 anthem - Chumbawamba's ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
An impending Standard & Poor's downgrade of bank hybrids will drive the value of these investments, which have already seen recent falls, even lower, according to fixed income specialists FIIG Securities. The ratings agency said it will downgrade the ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... slammed self-regulation saying that it was "no longer a credible option for establishing higher standards." "Such is the poor level of trust that we need a new governing body to regulate. The level of trust is at an all-time low for advisers," he said. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The Australian share market has picked up as investors rebound from the sell-off on Monday and a poor start on Tuesday. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said trading at noon on Tuesday looked healthier than it did at the start of the session. ...

SMSF borrowers should be forced to seek advice: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... said it was supportive of the trustees' ability to borrow within the fund, but raised concerns over "mounting evidence that poor practices are emerging, creating issues of liquidity, over-gearing and poor trustee decision making." The AFA A said examples ...