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Westpac Online launches intl CFDs

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
Westpac Online Investing adds international Contracts for Difference (CFDs) to its product suite. Available from this week, Westpac Online investors will have access to CFD coverage across nine international markets that include international shares ...

More tax changes needed to aid local funds: BDO

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... worsens the uncertainty for the purposes of FIN 48 - application of certain US accounting rules to managed funds - disclosure. Though the Government proposes to address the permanent establishment issue, it is clear that it does not immediately plan ...

ASIC clears up online disclosure rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... clear the uncertainty of what is legal - and what's not - when planners and financial service providers deliver online disclosure to clients. Financial services providers that send disclosures such as statements of advice to clients using online means ...

AIST hires trustee governance manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, she was a previous member of the Standards Committee Australia advising on open disclosure in health care. In 2007, she was named the BOSS (AFR) Young Executive of the Year. Meanwhile, AIST also appointed Richard Webb ...

CFD newcomer backs tighter ASIC rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
Capital CFDs tackles Australia's contracts-for-difference (CFD) market despite ASIC tightening its regulations. Australia's CFD market, reportedly the second largest globally, was hit hard during the GFC with many investors exposed to the drawbacks ...

Aus Ethical and TCI score win in climate advocacy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Two major resources companies have backed down from their refusals to provide disclosure around carbon emissions. The companies have agreed to provide greater disclosure around carbon emissions, after pressure from the Climate Institute, Australian ...

Heat rises on emissions disclosure

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... disclose carbon emissions. Last week, the boards of Paladin Energy and Aquila Resources both rejected proposals requesting disclosure of their carbon emissions, as well as their capital investment assumptions around future carbon prices used to make ...

Ipac improves 'soft dollar' register disclosure

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
AXA-owned ipac Securities has briefed its call centre staff to make its register of alternative remuneration for planners available to members of the public, after a staff member failed to do so following a request. A spokesperson for ipac said the ...

IOOF consolidates platforms

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... Skandia Australia and merger with AWM. Following the rationalisation, IOOF will make fewer system changes, have fewer disclosure documents to alter, and streamline its offering to members, said Christopher Kelaher, managing director of IOOF Holdings ...

New rules for investment advisers: SEC

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... clarity regarding certain exemptions to investment adviser registration, and make amendments to rules that would require disclosure of greater information by these advisers. "The enhanced information envisioned by these proposed rules would better enable ...