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Nationals pressure Treasury for RC into white collar crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
Nationals' Senator John Williams has given Treasury the suggested terms of reference for a Royal Commission into white collar crime. Williams confirmed to Financial Standard that he gave the documents to Treasurer Joe Hockey's chief of staff two weeks ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
The share market is higher as investors are buoyed by signs Greece's debt problems are set to be temporarily resolved. The positive influence of statements from Greek officials that alternative reform proposals will be drawn up ahead of an EU loan extension ...

NAB denies failing advice clients

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
NAB Wealth has responded to media allegations of professional misconduct. After Fairfax Media published reports suggesting "forgery" and "rogue advisers" were rife within NAB's financial advice arm, NAB Wealth group executive Andrew Hagger said in a ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... Eurozone - the Stoxx 600 is up 11.4% this year to date -- which is in the midst of throwing bucket loads of money at its problem)? The All Ordinaries index has risen by 8.9% so far this year. This compares with the S&P 500's 1.9% return; the Dow's 0.9% ...

Pro-active, timely responses avoid SMSF penalties

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... superannuation Nathan Burgess and Belinda Aisbett, director of SMSF audit specialist Super Sphere. "Ignoring the ATO and hoping the problem will go away is the worst thing to do," Aisbett told delegates at the SMSF Association National Conference in ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) professionals must steel themselves against the criticism levelled at the sector, said AMP SMSF head of policy and technical Peter Burgess, who set out to dispel some of the charges made against SMSFs in a presentation ...

ASIC stops Bitcoin miner discussing IPO

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
ASIC has issued a stop order prohibiting Bitcoin Group from discussing its intention to IPO prior to submitting a prospectus. Bitcoin Group is a "miner" of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. This entails using software to solve complex mathematical problems ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... members. Like previous other episodes, Tsipras and the troika would negotiate their way out of this fresh outbreak... but the problem will linger until the next epidemic. Alan Greenspan, in his recent interview with the BBC, said: "I don't think it will ...

SMSF sector enters next phase

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... regular income streams have almost doubled. "This shows a growing concern for longevity risk. While it might not be a problem for people who retire at the moment, it will be for younger generations," Colley said. Quantum Financial principal and adviser ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... people at all saying, "Look, the cost of money is too high", or, "I can't get money." I don't think that's really the problem now. If you think that confidence is the thing that is kind of the missing ingredient, then what can we do for confidence? The ...