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Digital advice to jumpstart $5.6 trillion land grab

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
The next big wave of advice will come from a business model that is gaining traction overseas, but is yet to be fully embraced in Australia. For the early adopters, it could be the foundation of a sustainable and exciting growth for their practices. ...

Australia's unit trust dictum is killing the funds industry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
If Australia wants develop its potential to be funds management player in the Asia region, government has to decide whether it's policy on how it treats international fund managers is targeted at minimising tax leakage or exporting services, growing ...

General advice is not advice: Rantall

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
The term 'general advice' is misleading to consumers, and would be more appropriately labeled 'product sales', Financial Planning Association chief executive Mark Rantall has said. Speaking to a full house of Financial Services Council conference delegates ...

CBA sees two top execs step down

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief executive Ian Narev has confirmed that two members of the group's senior executive team will step down. CBA group executive of business and private banking Grahame Petersen will retire at the end of 2014 after nearly 35 ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
I'll be ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing - this morning if not for the fact that it's the big boys playing with nuke toys that are escalating their tit-for-tat aggression... even if they hurt themselves in the process. Instead, me, myself and I ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after international bourses extended their declines with investors still concerned over conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and Argentina's debt default. At 0802 AEST on Monday, the September share ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The Australian sharemarket has opened flat following soft leads on Wall Street. The Dow Jones finished 0.08 per cent higher at 16,443.34 overnight after Russia imposed fresh sanctions against the West and Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox withdrew an ...

FSC bids to lead retirement income debate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden has called for a national retirement income policy. In his keynote speech to the FSC Annual Conference, Brogden said the FSC would embrace the opportunity and lead the debate on taking superannuation ...

Bowen supports lump sum status quo

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
There is no evidence to suggest Australians abuse their right to withdraw superannuation as a lump sum, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has said. Addressing delegates at the Financial Services Council conference, the former treasurer said forcing consumers ...

We don't want to regulate SMSFs: APRA, ASIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Australia's financial regulators do not want to oversee self managed super funds (SMSF) deliberately avoiding the question when asked at the FSC conference whether they should or would if given an opportunity to do so. "We don't want to regulate SMSFs," ...