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FS Advice: Medcraft's appalling speech

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... harder after the regulator lambasted its entire industry sector. In this edition of FS Advice, we also present two white papers about insurance and advice and a research paper about consumer attitudes towards financial advice. Read them here

Sally Loane new CEO of the Financial Services Council

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... retirement. The second, to ensure financial services has a voice of influence in the debate on the tax and federation white papers a^' an area which is well overdue for reform. "And the third is to contribute to Australia's future economicA growth through ...

Forget about national advice exam, focus on training: CPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... knowledge and skills required to provide quality financial advice. The document acknowledged that previous consultation papers by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in 2011 and 2013 have proposed lifting the current minimum standards. ...

Financial Standard launches magazine for managed accounts professionals

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... our new publication," said Baltazar. The magazine ( www.fsmanagedaccounts.com.au ) will feature news, case studies, white papers, blogs and a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program. A monthly newsletter is available free to subscribers.

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... work that was able to assist proxy voting decisions and company engagement on remuneration issues," ESG RA said. Eighteen papers were nominated this year, 10 by Elaine Prior from Citi Research and the rest from Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Macquarie ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... 2014/15 GDP growth, not the feared 0.3 - 0.5 percentage point subtraction. The growth estimates contained in the Budget papers are conservative. Real GDP is forecast to ease from 2.75% in 2013/14 to 2.5% next fiscal year before accelerating to 3.0% in ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... cuts to welfare for I cannot be sure for sure how many of 'em recommendations I would get to read printed on the Budget papers. Relatively calm periods like these should be good for investors...but not with markets either fully or overvalued. Ho-hum... ...

Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... NAB-owned MLC lawyer Grant Jones, who actively lobbied for the exemption to be approved. "He amended ASIC's internal issues papers to calculator relief to advance his employer's interests, he drafted emails to IFSA on behalf of ASIC, he actively lobbied ...

Robeco fund recommended by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... function as each other's back up. Lonsec decribed van Vliet as a "motivated and capable investor" who has written academic papers on low volatility research and investing. Van Ditshuizen has 17 years' investment experience, all with Robeco. Lonsec said ...