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Remove adviser double tax: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
Self-employed financial advisers licensed through a dealer group risk being taxed twice under the current state payroll tax, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) told delegates at its annual conference in Cairns. The AFA will lobby for an exemption ...

Premium signs up three accounting practices

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
Dealer group Premium Wealth Management has signed up three new accounting practices who are looking to add financial planning operations to their businesses. ADX Financial Planning (formerly part of Moon Cunningham and licensed through Count), Sullivans ...

Scale drove CalPERS hedge fund move

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... scale may also exist in Australia as only four funds were found to have exposures greater than 10%: Commonwealth Super Corporation, Local Government Super Scheme, Club Super and the United Technologies Corporation Retirement Plan. The Future Fund Management ...

Whitehelm appointed to advise $2 billion Land Account

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... Strait Islander Act 2005, the Land Account was established for the purpose of making payments to the Indigenous Land Corporation. "The Land Account adds to our roster of prominent Australian Institutional clients," Whitehelm Capital chief executive Gary ...

YBR Funds Management rebrands, launches new fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has rebranded its funds management business under the new name 'Smarter Money Investments Pty Ltd' (SMI). The rebranding also coincides with the launch of a new fixed income fund, Smarter Money Higher Income Fund, which focuses ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... up five cents at $3.71, while BHP Billiton fell 36 cents to $34.59. In other news, troubled rare earths miner Lynas Corporation has placed its shares in a trading halt as it prepares to reveal details of a new funding deal.

Prominent families back Future Generation philanthropic fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
Mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest and high profile manufacturing dynasty, the Smorgon family, are among the initial investors in the Future Generation Investment Fund, which has officially commenced trading on the ASX. The new philanthropically-focused ...

Merrill Lynch Equities Australia handed $96,000 fine

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... erroneous order into the ASX Trading Platform which resulted in a market for Class A non-voting common stock in News Corporation, not being both fair and orderly. The penalty refers to a trade made by a Merrill Lynch client on 28 February 2012. The regulator ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Financial advisers should be forced to undergo mandatory ethics classes as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the professional standards of the industry, the not-for-profit superannuation industry has argued. In a joint submission to the Parliamentary ...

AMP Capital invests in North American renewable assets

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
AMP Capital has grown its global infrastructure debt platform, forming a new partnership with Alterra Power Corporation. AMP Capital's Infrastructure Debt Fund II has arranged and structured a C$110 million subordinated loan for Alterra, a leading global ...