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Ditch retail prospectuses in some cases, say leading lawyers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
Australia should consider dumping retail investment product providers obligations to issue prospectuses as the quid pro-quo for continuous disclosure, a panel of leading finance industry lawyers has said. The proposal surfaced following the release ...

Maurice Blackburn mulls class action against Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Maurice Blackburn is considering starting a class action against Macquarie in light of the growing number of disgruntled Macquarie Private Wealth customers approaching the litigator. Maurice Blackburn head of the financial disputes department John Berrill ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... market operates differently to the US and Europe. Meanwhile on stage right we have most economists telling us that the real problem with housing is we don't have enough construction and it's pent up demand and undersupply that is the real price driver ...

FEATURE: Have we reached the tipping point for managed accounts?

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... professionally managed portfolio to suit their own unique needs. Stock exposures can be dialled up or down to overcome the problem of being too concentrated in certain stocks or sectors. In the US, funds in managed accounts run into the trillions of ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... that time and zero percent in June. But fear not doughnut, it would just push the ECB to go the way of the Fed and QE the problem away. And besides, the downward pressure on global growth created by the geo-political uncertainty by the sanctions and ...

New report stokes 'Compare the Pair' flames

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... business banking relationships." The release also said recent "bank-friendly" changes to financial advice laws compound the problem. "As ISA has consistently argued, concentration in banking and vertically integrated financial advice businesses means ...

Independent trustees fix wrong problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The push for more independent super fund trustees has been spurred by flawed assumptions, reveals new research released by the McKell Institute. In the report 'The Success of Representative Governance on Superannuation Boards' the authors - professor ...

CBA appoints international experts to oversee advice program

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Jeff Carmichael's Promontory Financial Group has been appointed independent expert for the Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) Open Advice Review program. The appointment follows a series of announcements made ahead of the company results, which will be released ...

General advice is not advice: Rantall

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... that product, and the consumer makes their own decision about whether or not that's suitable to them, we do not have a problem with that." But he went on: "The minute the conversation changes to whether that product is suitable to my needs, we believe ...

Simplify your products, life insurers told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The struggling life insurance industry should focus on developing simpler products if it wants to avoid a repeat of its recent woes, according to Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) member Ian Laughlin. While acknowledging the industry ...