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$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Irregularities amounting to more than $US5 billion ($A5.41 billion) have been found at China's sovereign wealth fund and two large state-owned banks, according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse into the opaque management of government-controlled ...

Crime survey finds fraud rife in Australia

PETRINA BERRY, AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... than $1 million from cybercrime in the past two years while one third reported procurement fraud. Cybercrime is a bigger problem for banks while procurement fraud is more common in the construction, mining and energy industries, PwC Partner and Forensic ...

ASIC asks FSI for more flexible toolkit

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to grant it a more flexible regulatory toolkit and increase its scope to address market problems. Giving a speech at the Corporate Governance ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... the slower growth resulting from the deferment of consumer and business spending and voila... Houston, we have another problem!... and is not as if the euro area's economy is going gangbusters either. GDP inched up by only 0.2% in the March quarter after ...

ASIC reviews misleading promotion of hybrids

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... simply exist to feed on themselves," he said. However, he rejected the claim that predatory high-frequency trading was a problem in Australia. Medcraft also talked about ASIC's rollout of Market Analysis Intelligence (MAI), its new market surveillance ...

Jeremy Cooper: Rethinking retirement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... be praying that that's it for a while. But as deep as the Stronger Super reforms went, they did not really tackle the problem of transforming accumulated funds into retirement income. Now, as chairman of retirement income at Challenger, Cooper is turning ...

Baby boomers account for four in five dollars under advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... retirement age, retirees and pre-retirees will continue to demand higher levels of planning support for decades to come." The problem of how to fund this growing segment through retirement is one of the most fiercely debated in the industry today. The ...

Dancing with digital: MAX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... cast by 2,600 individuals across 20 categories 2) MAX is modeled after TED (and if you don't know TED, then we have a problem). 3) The financial services and wealth management industry looks after $1.8 trillion of assets. That's why it's important to ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... nearly 30-year fixed income bull run, relatively few financial services professionals working today have had to face this problem before. How to choose suitable investments from the plethora of approaches being touted by fund managers and how to build ...

CBA forced to review poor compensation methods

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
Commonwealth Financial Planning and Financial Wisdom will have to reopen compensation processes for more than 4,000 clients after its methods were found to be inconsistent and disadvantaged customers. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...