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Advisers dismiss Medicare-style advice service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... system," though he added it might be worth considering in "a couple of years' time." He offered other solutions to the problem of affordable advice. "I think the first step for us would be a level playing field with other advisers like accountants and ...

Last minute deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... to size, trying to do our best to stop Obamacare...We fought the good fight; we just didn't win." And herein lies the problem. Washington politicians see the whole budget and debt ceiling issue as a contest where one side has to win and the other bites ...

Advisers should engage clients on health

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
The Australian National Preventative Health Organisation (ANPHA) has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging advisers to develop ways of engaging clients on preventable health issues such as heart disease and diabetes. With at least 60% of Australian ...

Read the rules, says ASIC

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... keeping firmly in its sights. "If you can't outline in simple terms how advice has benefitted the client then there is a problem," Kell said. "Record keeping is really an area we've had concerns about so it's important I put that at front and centre ...

Investor interest shifts to European credit

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
Investors are starting to take an interest in European credit as the US political deadlock continues with no end in sight. HSBC global chief investment officer of fixed income Xavier Baraton told Financial Standard that "big investment funds in Asia ...

Catastrophe bonds offer answer to asset correlation problem

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) offer investors returns completely uncorrelated to traditional assets, but so far, Australian investors have been slow to pick up on sector, which is tipped for strong growth in the coming years. Insurance-linked securities ...

Insto investors want better marketing material

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... information as retail investors, reveals new research from specialist alternative investment researcher Preqin. Top of the problem list is that the investment performance information is poorly presented while too much superfluous information is provided. ...

Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013

Senate to question ASIC over alleged RBA corruption

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
The Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will "no doubt" question the regulator over its failure to act on the alleged corruption within subsidiary companies of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Market Vectors set to launch four Australian equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... designed to prevent large-cap companies such as BHP Billiton and Westfield Group from dominating the portfolio, a common problem with traditional Australian market capitalisation weighted indices. "Market Vectors is entering the Australian market place ...