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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... an operational update. IAG, UGL, Flight Centre, Perpetual, Ardent Leisure, Federation Centres, PAS Group, Nick Scali, Freedom Foods have their annual general meetings scheduled. Toll Group has an investor day. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed ...

Do not take adviser loyalty for granted: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... "Following FoFA, and perhaps as a consequence of the introduction of the best interest duty, they now have increasing freedom," Investment Trends senior analyst Recep Peker said. "With a quarter of planners saying they stopped investing new client flows ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
Push has now come to shove. Yes Virginia, freshly-released data on the state of inflation and unemployment may have just done it - that is, remove whatever doubts linger that Super Mario's coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

SMSFs need no more regulation: Treasury

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... submission to the Financial System Inquiry. It said that a major attraction of SMSFs was the light-touch regulation, providing freedom for trustees to engage more closely with their superannuation. "Continuation of the light-touch compliance framework ...

APRA requests more decision-making power

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... Financial System Inquiry to call for increased independence from government. APRA's submission argues that it needs more freedom to regulate the banking, superannuation and life insurance industries without interference from the government or parliament. ...

British govt to introduce pension choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... contribution savings to buy an annuity. But times have changed, and a new solution is needed," notes the consultation entitled 'Freedom and choice in pensions' that accompanies the Budget announcement. British retirees currently are allowed to take 25% ...

Government targets super in awards, board independence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... Employers and employees can agree to select an alternative MySuper default fund if they wish and employees have complete freedom to select their own individual super fund." Meanwhile, Tom Garcia, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Perpetual and Thorney "instrumental" in OneVue IPO talks

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... delivered to shareholders in recent times and I'd be a fool not to listen to them." She added that OneVue had enjoyed the freedom of "flying below the radar" that operating under a private structure afforded but said now was the time to take the business ...

Standard Life Inv GARS fund recommended by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... strong and established track record in this area. "GARS isn't constrained by a benchmark, giving our investment team full freedom to pursue a broad range of investment strategies across a wide range of asset classes. Constructing a portfolio of diversified ...