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SMSF borrowers should be forced to seek advice: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees who want to enter into a limited recourse borrowing arrangement should be forced to seek financial advice, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) said. In its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) ...

BT unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
Westpac-owned BT Financial Group is the latest group to confirm new minimum education requirements for its financial advisers, responding to mounting pressure from consumers, associations and a Senate Economics Committee report. Similar to the new rules ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Ho-hum. It's now so predictable that it's become so triple ho-hum boring. Yes folks, "Chumbawamba" still rules on Wall Street - it gets knocked down but it gets up again, nothing's ever going to keep it down. Only yesterday, I listed the list of crises ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... Woodside Petroleum gained 41 cents to $42.03 after reporting a double-digit rise in sector quarter production levels and sales. Mount Gibson Iron added 3.5 cents, or 5.11 per cent, to 72 cents after recording positive production data. The big banks were ...

Canadian pension fund buys AMP NZ property portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
One of Canada's largest pension investors, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has bought a complete portfolio of New Zealand properties managed by AMP Capital worth NZ$1 billion. AMP Capital said the sale would allow investors, which include ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Budget speech 2014 -15

Madam Speaker, I move that the Bill for the Budget be now read a second time. Our future depends on what we as a nation do today. For our children, for our seniors, for individuals, for families, for our disabled and for our frail, for all of us, the ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
The share market has opened lower as concerns about China's economy and falling commodity prices continue to weigh on investors. There was also a weak lead from Wall Street where the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.41 per cent, continuing the ...

Pressure mounts on super in modern awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
MLC and BT have called on the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to delay its four yearly review of the default fund terms of modern awards until after the government has completed its own review into the issue. The call is part of a larger campaign led by ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
You, I and Irene can bury our collective heads in the sand but we can't escape Toyota's announcement that it would tailgate Ford and then Holden out of Australia and then... Australia's car manufacturing industry would be no more when 2017 turns into ...