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AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... open. The S&P 500 finished the week above 1,900 for the first time after a positive report on US new-home sales helped to push Wall Street stocks broadly higher. The index advanced 0.4 per cent on Friday and the Dow Jones also rose 0.4 per cent. "European ...

Platforms pushed by utility as well as technology

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
While rapid advances in technology is putting platforms under pressure to keep evolving, platform operators believe they need to not just add functionality but features that actually improve investor's connectivity and usefulness. Speaking at the "Riding ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set to fall after weak earnings from US retail giant WalMart contributed to a sharp drop on Wall Street. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was down 29 points at 5,496. In local economic ...

Budget presents huge opportunity for wealth industry

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
The two year increase in the Age Pension is likely to create a huge opportunity for the financial services industry as product and service providers devise ways to help fund people those additional years, according to Rainmaker Information director ...

Cuts to ASIC and ATO push industry to self-regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Budget cuts to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will force the industry to rely more on self-regulation. The budget is contemplating cuts of $142.8 million over the next three years ...

Delay in SG rise 'disappointing', says industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... this confirmation will provide some certainty to employers who have been unclear about what would happen on 1 July 2014, the push out in the timetable is disappointing given the need to raise the level of super contributions to ensure ordinary working ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
"War, huh, yeah What is it good for Absolutely nothing." - Edwin Starr Nah Virginia, I'm not referring to the one that's feared to erupt soon after pro-Russian rebels in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk went ahead with the secession referendum ...

Managed accounts take-up jump 63%: survey

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... managed under SMSFs). However, recent developments suggest a seachange. Independent platform netwealth is making an aggressive push into the sector while two providers, OneVue and managedaccounts.com.au (previously IAS) are set to list. Even more telling ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... companies, while Pfizer fell 2.6 per cent on some disappointing signals in quarterly results and a hint it might take its push to buy Britain's AstraZeneca to shareholders, turning the bid hostile. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets ended mixed, with ...