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Matrix Financial Solutions' MD departs

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
Matrix Financial Solutions managing director Rick Di Cristoforo has resigned from his role but will remain in the financial services sector. Di Cristoforo's last day with the privately-owned dealer group will be 21 February 2014 He has been with Matrix ...

PROFILE: Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
A career in the public and private sector has set the Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos in good stead for his challenge to change the financial services sector. Alice Uribe reports. By his own admission, politics was not always on the cards for Senator ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following strong gains on Wall Street after new Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen's Congressional testimony appeared to reassure investors. At 0820 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures ...

SMSFs poised to boost infrastructure investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
Improving self-managed super funds' (SMSFs) access to infrastructure investments could completely change the funding of infrastructure projects in Australia. SMSF's direct access to this asset class has traditionally been extremely limited due to the ...

AFA to lobby on FoFA through grassroots campaign

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is calling on members to lobby their local representative on the organisation's position around the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. "We are calling on our members to support ...

Stanfield Funds Management names new MD

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
Stanfield Funds Management has appointed William Liam Ng as managing director who has taken over from Olney Fraser. Ng commenced his role as managing director on February 3rd 2014. Fraser has remained as the non-executive chairman of the board. On February  ...

Medcraft always going to testify at inquiry: ASIC

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft will appear before the Senate inquiry into ASIC, despite media reports to the contrary, according to an ASIC statement. Medcraft publically announced his commitment to the ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
More data, more confusion. What's an investor to do? Do what Wall Street did, that's what... sit on his hands and wait. More data. The ISM non-manufacturing index increased to a reading of 54.0 in January, up 1.0 from December's 53.0 reading and better ...

EQT reports lift in profits

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
Equity Trustees (EQT) has announced a 16.3% year-on-year lift in half-year revenue and a 21.6% increase in net profit after tax for the six months to 31 December 2013. Net profit after tax rose for the second half of 2013 rose to $5.4 million from $4.4 ...

FPA kicks off week of free financial advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) advisers will be providing financial advice for free as part of the Ask an Expert Week that starts today and will finish on February 9th. Consumers can ask their questions through the Ask an Expert forum at the ...