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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Australian stocks have jumped to fresh five-year highs in response to gains on global stock markets on Friday night. The local market has climbed more than half a per cent to its higher level since mid 2008. "It looks like a good firm opening and that ...

ASIC acted only when claims hit "tsunami level"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
A former employee of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has condemned the fact that the regulator acted only when the volume of complaints "reached tsunami level." In a submission to the Senate inquiry on ASIC's performance ...

Advisers need to overcome financial planning stigma

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
The industry needs to face the fact that people trust their own financial planner, but they don't have confidence in financial planning as a general concept. The Financial Planning Standards Board (FSPB) United States chief executive Noel Maye said ...

Advisers should engage clients on health

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
The Australian National Preventative Health Organisation (ANPHA) has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging advisers to develop ways of engaging clients on preventable health issues such as heart disease and diabetes. With at least 60% of Australian ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 15 and counting...2 days to go till the US debt hits the ceiling. So what else is new? True to form...and recent history, it looks like the political powers in Washington will again take it to the limit. US President Obama must be wishing ...

Investor interest shifts to European credit

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
Investors are starting to take an interest in European credit as the US political deadlock continues with no end in sight. HSBC global chief investment officer of fixed income Xavier Baraton told Financial Standard that "big investment funds in Asia ...

Asset manager growth ambitions slowed by regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
Australian asset managers say their growth ambitions are being hindered by regulatory constraints and the burden of updating systems and process, according to a survey of 200 Asia Pacific managers commissioned by State Street. In a bid to improve transparency ...

Sonray director to face 10 years imprisonment over unfunded deposits

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
The sole director of Sonray Capital Markets (Sonray) Russell Andrew Johnson could face up to 10 years jail time over criminal charges relating to false accounting, theft and deception. Johnson pleaded guilty to the seven criminal charges brought by ...

ASIC, "twin peaks" model faces review

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
Evidence that it took at least 16 months for ASIC to act on whistleblowers' information about misconduct within the Financial Planning division of Commonwealth Bank became a turning point in the long-running debate around the effectiveness of the current ...

Institutional investors to lift infra assets

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
Pleased with the performance their infrastructure assets have produced over the last 12 months, two thirds of institutional investors are planning to further increase their exposure to the sector, according to recent research from alternatives specialist ...