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Commonwealth FP adviser banned

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
Australian Securities & Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from former Commonwealth Financial Planning Limited (CFPL) employee, Joe Chan, after he was found to have failed to meet adviser obligations. Australian Securities ...

Bad news? What bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
Shiver me timbers! If you ever doubted that the markets see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear, the equity markets' performance over the past 24 hours will make a believer out of ya'll. Forget Europe, China's coming to the rescue. ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
Now look at that! Wall Street and most European stock markets ended on the plus side last week despite that nagging Grexit feeling - and its potential to be followed by an Irexit, Portexit, Spanexit and Italexit - that'll culminate in a eurozone kaboom. ...

Facebook IPO price raises queries on value

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
Facebook's IPO, priced at $38 per share will raise $16bn in the largest tech IPO in history, yet some local fund managers are questioning the $104bn valuation the price will give the social network. "The $38 share price highlights the fact it seems ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
If you're in Victoria (Australia) and you watch television, chances are you've probably seen Quit Victoria's new anti-smoking ad. I don't know if this is shown in the other states but the ad shows a fretful young dad in a hospital waiting room waiting ...

Super funds urged to disclose director and exec pay

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees is calling on its 80 member funds to provide full disclosure of trustee director and executive pay, and not wait for Government regulation. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ...

Optimistic outlook for industry growth: Research

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
New research from AIA Australia, has revealed that advisers are overwhelmingly optimistic on the 12 month outlook for the industry, seeing the most growth coming from families and the self employed. The AIA Australia Adviser Partnership Survey of 1100 ...

Deja vu of deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
My, my, hey, hey, rock n' roll is here to stay - or in our case Europe's sovereign debt, fiscal deficit, financial, banking, economic, political and social crisis. You name the crisis. One or more members of the Eurozone's got one, or more, or all of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
Australian stocks have opened flat as market players wait for key economic data from China. At 1030 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.7 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 4,292.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen ...