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ADPIA lobbies against relic property laws

The peak body for direct property investors has called for each State Revenue Office in Australia to standardise stamp duty and get rid of archaic property trust regulations. Linden Toll, the president of the Australian Direct Property Investment Association ...

Better FHSAs needed for buyers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Superannuation industry bodies AIST, ISN and IFF have banded together to propose measures tailoring First Home Saver Accounts to better aid struggling first home buyers. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST, said the scheme should be structured in ...

Austock teams with Cantor

... agreement, Austock will be able to contact US institutional investors and settle transactions through Cantor in compliance with Rule 15a-6 under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act 1934. "The US is home to many important investors and this partnership is ...

Liquidnet rakes $200m off starting blocks

Liquidnet, the global agency broker that's just launched in Australia, has said members have traded $200 million in equities using the group's block matching system. The group allows institutional investors to trade large blocks of equities directly ...

FPA drafts practice principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has developed a set of Practice Standards for its members to ensure clients consistently receive appropriate advice. The FPA Professional Conduct Committee, financial planners and compliance specialists developed ...

Regulators fight breaches online

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... report breaches, and prospective breaches, of a legal provision of an APRA-administered or ASIC-administered Act, standard or rule, as well as other matters that are required to be reported. It also reduces duplication faced by institutions regulated ...

Listed cos fail compliance test

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... said Australians would struggle to meet required notification commitments if the period was shortened. "There's a two day rule to notify of director share trade in the US and there is a move to impose that here. We're concerned that if company directors ...

Australia dubbed the educational hub

Kaplan Professional, The Washington Post-owned group that bought Tribeca and Finsia's educational arm last year, has flagged plans to make Australia an "educational hub" in the Asia-Pacific region. While the name Kaplan is little known locally - up ...

Super gap widens between haves and have-nots

One of the largest regular surveys conducted on super has confirmed the increasing gap between those who can afford to retire and those who can't. Twice a year, financial services giant AMP asks more than 320,000 of its AMP Corporate Super members to ...

Good wine, good advice

... However, the industry's peak body, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) is lobbying for the government to change this rule. But Leslie said that in a way it filters out people who are not serious about following a financial planning strategy. "I ...