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International planning expert urges advisers to voice FOFA concerns

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... advisers' knowledge base, as well as improving their ability to build relationships with customers by practicing the 'golden rule of selling'. "You sell to people in a manner in which you yourself would like to be sold," he explained. "That involves ...

Volcker Rule could slash Wall Street incomes 25%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
Legislation in the US to rein in investment banks' ability for market making that goes against clients best interests, is proving to be more complicated than first thought. The proposal, known as the 'Volcker Rules', were proposed by economist and former ...

Happily dreaming of the end

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011

SPAA rallies against off-market trading ban

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
The self-managed super fund industry is calling on the government to revoke plans to ban off market transfers with particular concern that larger funds are not subject to the same rules. The government's Stronger Super reforms package includes plans ...

Government publishes core elements of MySuper draft

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
The Government has provided a two-week window for submissions on draft legislation on the core elements of MySuper as it presses ahead with plans to introduce the default super product from July 2013. Having outlined the structure of Stronger Super ...

BBC denies trader a hoax interview

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... right now for wishful thinking that governments are going to sort things out," Rastani told the BBC. "The governments don't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world." Rastani compared the world financial crisis to cancer and said in the interview ...

Call for realism on planner services

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
The financial advice industry needs to establish better ways to communicate exactly what it can offer to potential clients, as the direct link between service and cost becomes more tangible. According to Philip Galagher, head of wealth management at ...

Family office aligns with hedge fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
Hedge fund, Signature Capital Investments, has partnered up with a Sydney-based family office. The strategic alliance between Signature Capital Investments (SGI) and with AR Management (ARM) was made official on September 26. ARM is the management and ...

Legal threats loom over poor SMSF advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
Some financial advisers and accountants that call themselves 'SMSF specialists' are ill-equipped to adequately advise on running a self-managed super fund - making them prime targets for litigation and causing reputational damage to the SMSF sector. ...

US adviser fiduciary rule stalls

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... regulator to re-initiate industry discussions, a process that some believe may take up to two years. The tougher fiduciary rule was set to be imposed on financial planners and brokers alike, in a bid to ensure intermediaries put investor interests above ...