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Facebook usage in Australia going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
While there are concerns Facebook use in Australia may be slipping, the number of Australians using the social media platform actually jumped 2.75% in May to reach 12.2 million. LinkedIn was ranked a distant second with 3.7 million users and Twitter ...

Perth mortgage broker permanently banned

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a Perth-based mortgage broker. An ASIC investigation found that he had falsified a letter stating finance approval had been provided for a client and then forwarded it ...

Giant firms hold sway in infrastructure investment industry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The top 10 infrastructure fund managers by capital raised in the last 10 years accounted for 45% of the total raised by closed-ended infrastructure funds in the last decade, according to alternatives researcher Preqin. In its July edition of Infrastructure ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
Former Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan has reassured Australians that the economy is 'not running out of puff' with the construction and services sectors well poised to replace the mining sector as drivers of economic growth. In his first ...

Clear as crystal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
It doesn't get any clearer than this! It's crystal! No more communications breakdown. No more failure to communicate. Big Ben Bernanke has delivered! While it's mostly a reiteration of the repeated message I've been telling you he's been telling us ...

ASIC orders further PIS scrutiny over compliance concerns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
Professional Investment Services (PIS) will be subject to a monitoring program by an independent expert to ensure that its advice processes meet the standards set out in a major enforceable undertaking (EU). The EU came to an end on March 2012 and PIS ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu has said Australian policy makers must remain calm about a weakening domestic currency if the economy is to manage its transition away from a focus on mining. Addressing delegates at The Bellweather Series, an ...

Former Macquarie exec to head up EFIC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
The Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), the Australian Government's export credit agency, has a new managing director and chief executive, Andrew Hunter. Until last year Hunter was co-head of Macquarie's Financial Institutions Group in ...

Super funds need more women in senior roles: WIS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
Women in Super (WIS), a networking and advocacy group for women working in superannuation, is urging the super industry to adopt targets to increase the number of women in senior management roles. Speaking at the launch of the 2013 WIS National Road ...

Class Super gains ground in SMSF software race

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
ASX-listed company CountPlus has invested one million shares in SuperIP, the holding company of self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) software provider Class Super. Class Super said this foreshadows the company's intention to publicly list the company ...