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FSC urges Senate to vote for SG rise

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... $184bn as a result. New research carried out by Rice Warner Actuaries for the Financial Services Council (FSC) claims raising the super guarantee from 9 to 12 % as proposed by the government, would cause the retirement savings gap to fall to $836 bn ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... at 21 cents. Woodchipper Gunns remained suspended from trading as it said it was still working at finalising a capital raising. Gunns last traded at 16 cents. In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton was 49.5 cents higher at $35.465, and Rio ...

Gunns shares suspended

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... shares have been suspended from trading on the ASX at the request of the company as it attempts to negotiate a capital raising. The suspension is expected to last until resumption of trading on Monday March 19 when offer details and structure will be ...

Australian Capital Reserve directors sentenced

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... (formerly CIC) and its 21 subsidiaries, including ACR, went into voluntary administration on 28 May 2007. ACR was the fund-raising arm of the group, raising funds through a series of nine prospectuses offering unsecured deposit notes to the investing ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... stimulating, he's reinvesting the proceeds of his asset purchases, he still has "Operation Twist" in place, and he's not raising on interest rates "at least through late 2014". Easy money policy still not enough to convince you? Then what about if we ...

Shorten locks down accountant timeline

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... licence exemption. "If the license is based on competency and not the product, then a restricted licence is appropriate. By raising the competency of advice and structuring it into a regime which acknowledges what is true accounting advice, it will allow ...

Superannuation needs more regulatory resilience: ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
The exponential growth in superannuation has been named the first challenge to growing the resilience of the Australian regulatory perimeter by Greg Medcraft, chairman of ASIC. Speaking at the ASIC Summer School in Sydney this morning, Medcraft said ...

ANZ reaches $1.48bn in three months

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... controversially announced it would cut around 1000 jobs by September 30 to adjust to weak demand for financial services while also raising its standard variable mortgage rates independently of the central bank. "There is no question that adapting to ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... they've been shedding jobs too. I don't know about the banks (and the rationales they put forward for shedding staff and raising interest rates), but all of these local and locally-based companies hurt whenever optimism over world growth prevails because ...

New data questions SMSF inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... New data indicates SMSF net inflows may be decelerating, both in terms of dollars and as a percentage of average assets, raising questions about whether the market has reached its peak. Andrew Baker, managing partner of Tria Investment Partners, identified ...