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Key planners crucial when planning firms sell

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
There are many ways to measure how much a financial planning practice or dealer group is worth when it is up for sale or eyeing a public float - high on this list is whether the key advisers are going to stay or not, industry experts say. Ian Jedlin ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... still could not find suitable investments to beat zero cash rates (or very low long-term rates), Houston we may have a problem. A mountain of money would not fix that. The problem the US finds itself where it is now is because of those anti-Keynesian ...

ASIC tightens noose on managed inv schemes

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
Australia's top financial watchdog has called for strict new requirements to protect investors in managed investment schemes, but the rules could end up hurting the very same people they aim to protect. In a recently released discussion paper, ASIC ...

Treasury rebuffs MySuper critics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... explanation of how people save," they said. Gruen and Wong said this is illustrated in the way people handle choices. The major problem is that "choice overload increases the likelihood that people (particularly those with low levels of financial education) ...

Align preservation and retirement age: DoFD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... Gillard government that the current unlimited funding of superannuation benefits will eventually break the budget. The main problem, noted the DoFD, is that the impacts of the aging Australian population will put too much pressure on retirement income ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... are in much better shape than the one we saw back in 2008. Yes I know, there's still much uncertainty. There's still the problem with Europe's sovereign debt. It might flare up again. Wait... it's flared up again. Bloomberg reported last night that ...

Real return to balance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... the basic foundations of investing and asset allocation. "We haven't had a lot of focus addressing the root cause of the problem, which is static asset allocation [but] trustee boards and planning groups are now actually starting to think about asset ...

Speaker chaos could derail super reforms

... Abbott has reneged on a parliamentary reform package that includes a more independent speaker. Appointment of speaker is a problem for the government because with the lower house numbers currently 76 to 74, if a Labor member is made speaker and say a ...

Russell upgrades insurance

NEWS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... the current default levels of cover are often inadequate. Legislative changes like MySuper are likely to exacerbate this problem with providers likely to adopt minimum legislative levels of cover rather than focusing on needs. This could result in a ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... because of depreciated yen, the reverse happens in America. Japan's economy strengthens to the detriment of the US. The problem is that similar to its foreign exchange dealings with China, it cannot tell Japan what to do. Or more accurately, the US can ...