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Govt aids anti-predatory lending laws

GOVT ANNOUNCEMENT  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
Finance brokers and certains lenders will need to comply with new responsible lending laws a year earlier than planned under the updated timetable of the government's proposed consumer credit reforms. Under the new deadlines, the responsible lending ...

Active members can cause asset allocation headache

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
Financial literacy and a push for more Australians to be engaged with superannuation will have a profound effect on super fund asset allocations, said one industry body. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) event, David ...

Mammoth super data creates operational risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
Super funds may need to reassess their technology budgets after research found swelling data volumes is putting storage systems under too much pressure. Symantec research found Australian companies are struggling to keep up with rising data volumes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after a fall on Wall Street on Friday and weaker commodity prices. At 0749 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 28 points lower at 4397. The August reporting ...

AMP Capital Investors block poor corp governance

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
Fund manager AMP Capital Investors revealed in its latest governance report to what extent it exercised its shareholder rights to vote against poor governance - including saying no to unjustified incentive schemes, re-election of poor performing board ...

Centric Wealth signs on XPLAN

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
Centric Wealth Advisers has entered into an agreement with IRESS to deploy the tech firm's web-based adviser desktop, XPLAN. "Following a strategic review of systems, extensive input from our adviser team, and a formal market analysis, IRESS was chosen ...

It's coming true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
"Such a feelin's comin over me There is wonder in most everything I see Not a cloud in the sky Got the sun in my eyes" (Carpenters) Wall Street snubbed what was broadly a bad news day and instead merrily hummed, "Everything I want the world to be, is ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Armenia, Georgia and Tajikistan may still be foreign territories for international fund managers - but a large Asian bank has pumped $240 million into the countries in a move that will help them and subsequently their neighbours, boost their investment ...

Liquidity problem in unlisted assets overstated: RWA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Liquidity is not a problem for most funds with high weightings to unlisted assets because they are protected by strong positive cashflows and most members are in the diversified default option. The criticism against unlisted valuation practices by retail ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
The gospel according to the US Federal Reserve: Economic activity -- "levelling out". Financial market conditions -- "improved further". Treasury buyback -- expiry extended another month to October (just in case). Fed funds rate - near zero for an extended ...