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FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... it." The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) COO Phil Anderson agreed with the FSC saying that self-regulation was not enough in the current environment, however he asked for more clarity about the funding of the body raising concerns that any additional ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... points above the previous month and five percentage points more than consensus expectations to be exact. These numbers were enough to send the S&P/ASX 200 index up 1.0% at the close of yesterday's trading - after slumping below its 2014 opening levels ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... investment, property prices, foreign direct investment and money supply growth. That's more than "one", is it not? This was enough to keep the price of iron ore falling down to US$79.80 - the lowest since September of five years ago - down by 41.3% from ...

HOSTPLUS to launch lifecycle option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... million and is growing by $1 million a week. However, he added: "For those of you who are interested, I'm not actually smart enough to pick stocks in the ASX 300, so I've got my money invested in the balanced default option." He also said that members ...

Penalties for fund managers too lenient

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The penalties dealt out to fund managers who commit fraud are not a severe enough deterrent, according to a senior university lecturer. Dr Pelma Rajapakse of Griffith University was commissioned to write a report by the Australian Centre for Financial ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... which traded at 80.23 pence from 80.07 late on Monday. "The poor old pound is still under pressure as traders are not brave enough to go bargain-hunting just yet. The possibility of Great Britain breaking up has hit the pound the hardest," said David ...

Challenger supports default 'MyPension' product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... Challenger essentially argued that GSA was a "blunt instrument" next to lifetime annuities. "Provided the pool is large enough, a GSA can deal with idiosyncratic longevity risk (the variation of the length of individual lives in the pool), but not with ...

Brumbie: Misguided attacks on SMSFs, enough already

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
I used to believe there were three evil things in the world but while I've changed my mind on the third I think I now have to add a fourth. The first was George Bush for his trickery that fooled the Western world into kicking the Middle East ants' nest ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... kitchen sink they were hoping for but the fridge - along with the promise that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and low-flation - annual rate of CPI inflation ...

Consumers overwhelmingly positive about super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... too many changes to the super system, an increase of 6%, while 71% said fees and the way they work are not transparent enough, up from 66% last year. The survey also found an increase of engagement, 68% of people saying they were in their employer's ...