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Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... financial year results in Melbourne. Coles managing director Ian McLeod is scheduled to address the Retail Traders Association of Western Australia breakfast in Perth. On Wednesday, the Australian share market finished its highest close in over four ...

Mistaken identity on term deposits

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... financial planner would use a term deposit in a client's profile," said Julie Berry, chair of Financial Planners Association of Australia. "Basically a term deposit is a 'dollar-in, dollar-out' approach, there is no risk from interest rate fluctuations. ...

Let the lobbying begin

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... clearly heard by what is likely to be a very different parliament," said Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Super Funds, Australia. "If (superannuation reforms) had been a big deal breaker for the Independents, I think we would already ...

Moving forward with Gillard

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... independent members of parliament to support Prime Minister Gillard," said Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds, Australia (ASFA) "We urge an immediate implementation of several key aspects of public policy to address ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... equally (if not more) as bad. And also not when they've been found to be lying... a second time. Bloomberg quoted the Association of German Banks warning that Germany's 10 biggest banks may require an additional a,-105 billion in fresh capital to comply ...

ATO appoints integrity adviser

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... of International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law from 2003 until 2008. Bugg has been president of the Bar Association of Tasmania, chairman of the Southern Legal Assistance Scheme and a member of the Council of the Law Society of Tasmania. He ...

AustralianSuper wades into politics

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... independents to commit to implementing the increased superannuation guarantee." Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, commended the super fund's initiative. "AustralianSuper is the largest industry fund ...

More million dollar members for MDRT

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... by MDRT, which includes metrics measuring the success of their business. MDRT is an international, independent association of over 31,500 members of the world's life insurance and financial services professionals from 464 companies in more than 80 nations ...

AFA launches FOFA Working Group

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has launched the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) Working Group. "We believe the Working Group will lead the way in informing the Government on the real impact of reform on consumers, advisers, the financial ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... quoting the experts used to describe last night's disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from the National Association of Realtors has again proved the phrase "safe as houses" wrong -- as it had during America's housing meltdown of 2007-2008. ...