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SEC triggers industry protest storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... that effectively offer a compromise position by allowing investors to redeem funds in a market crash but only down to a minimum level that would be customised around every account holder. Despite the SEC determination to push ahead with the reforms that ...

Senate committee gives FOFA green light

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... following months of industry lobbying of the Independents. The Senate committee's recommendations include provision of minimum disclosure guidelines on what providers need to include in the annual fee disclosure statement and further detail on how the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... stocks finished higher Thursday, led by a 1.2 per cent gain in the Nasdaq, buoyed by reports that Greece had achieved the minimum support needed to push its huge private-debt writeoff through. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 70.61 points ...

UN Responsible Investment head joins Emerald launch

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... facing their investments and want to know their money is being managed with those risks [ESG] being incorporated, as a minimum. It is now evident that RI is clearly better as it's good for people, planet and your back pocket," Medcalf said. In 2011 ...

Australian First Mortgage and SuperShift form alliance

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... specific offering that is tailored for our legal structures and enables the broker and the end consumer the best deal with a minimum of fuss." Ellis said it was important that traditional financial services reposition into the SMSF property and load ...

Smart beta gains popularity with instos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... have more than 10% invested in such strategies by 2015. bfinance predicts the trend towards smart beta solutions, such as minimum variance and risk weighted strategies, already apparent in institutional portfolios particularly in the Benelux countries ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... that it has become, has already agreed to its creditors' fresh demands for more austerity - more than 20% reduction in minimum wage, decreased pensions and the sacking of around 15,000 state jobs - to get its fiscal finances back to some semblance of ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... spending before it sees mo' money. According to the Wall Street Journal, "These policies include a 20% reduction in Greece's minimum wage, more than a,-3 billion of new government spending cuts, and further steps to slash supplemental pension benefits ...

ASFA warns on unseen MySuper outcomes

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... act in the best financial interests of members." "By framing the obligation in this matter it allows trustees to set a minimum asset or membership amount that can be confirmed annually. Accordingly, funds with very large scale will only need to proactively ...

Super industry responds to MYEFO

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... month." Treasury said it would extend the drawdown relief for account based pensions in 2012-13, with a 25% reduction in the minimum payment amounts for these products. It has halved the minimum payments every year since 2008 and was due to return these ...