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Co-operation key to avoiding pain from ASIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Financial services firms who come under fire from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) are better off working with the regulator than prepare for a legal battle, according to a law firm specialising in the area. A seemingly endless ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell on mixed US housing and inflation figures. At 0630 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was down 12 points at 5,061. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
The Australian market has opened lower as investors remain cautious ahead of Italy's general election. At 1023 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 7.3 points, or 0.14 per cent, at 5,056.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

New centre to lead advocacy for super fund members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
A new consumer centre designed to champion the rights of super fund members will be unveiled in July and if the founding committee gets it right, the centre could help Australians add at least $4 billion more to their retirement kitty. The Centre for ...

SMSFs warned over incapacity planning

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
Often the risks of a self-managed super fund director becoming incapacitated are ignored, a leading lawyer has warned. Speaking last week at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) national conference, Bryce Figot, director, DBA Lawyers ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed mixed and Europe's main stock markets retreated as the Group of 20 finance ministers met amid growing talk of "currency wars". At 0631 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index ...

Asset diversification gathers momentum

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
Institutional investors continue to diversify their investment portfolios into alternative assets, increasingly via direct funds rather than funds of funds, according to global data from Towers Watson. The data shows that in 2012 its clients - which ...

Macquarie launches SMSF Toolkit for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Macquarie Group has launched a Self Managed Super Funds Toolkit for advisers. The new service allows advisers to find all kinds of information and tools about SMSF in the one place, including calculators from Macquarie MAStech team, which calculate ...

Interest rate cuts drive SMSFs to FI, property

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Interest rate cuts in December 2012 drove Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) trustees from cash holdings to fixed interest and direct property investments, Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey found. Cash holdings fell 1.9% to 24.5% in the December ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Despite experts warning of a bond bubble, US mutual fund investors poured US$304 billion into bond funds last year. According to figures from the US Investment Company Institute, the bond fund inflows trounced the $153 billion that was withdrawn from ...