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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open a touch lower, as gains on Wall Street offset losses in the local market on Thursday. At 0648 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,615. US stocks have pushed higher ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after US stocks lost ground overnight. At 0651 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 24 points at 5,631. Wall Street fell for a second straight session following disappointing ...

SMSF trustees warned SuperStream deadline looms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
The deadline for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) to be compliant with the SuperStream data standards is fast approaching, and trustees who have not done so need to prepare now, the SMSF Association has warned. SMSF Association chief executive and managing ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
The advice industry is divided over how to fund an insurance scheme to compensate clients who receive bad advice. A rise in professional indemnity premiums is only compounding the problem. Senators Nick Xenophon and Sam Dastyari proposed a statutory ...

LGS launches shareholder voting website

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Local Government Super is reported to be the first super fund in Australia disclosing its voting intentions in advance of investee company shareholder meetings. The super fund's recent move was made in conjunction with the launch of a shareholder voting ...

Advisers need to educate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Speaking at the XY Adviser Event in Sydney, Association of Financial Advisers 2014 adviser of the year Eleanor Dartnall explained that client education leads to client retention. Describing her "epiphany" that led her from "managing" clients to "actually ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Pubs in the United Kingdom are proving an attractive source of income in an otherwise low yield environment, according to the world's largest asset manager BlackRock. "In the UK, the only area we have positive exposure to is pub bonds," BlackRock deputy ...

Frydenberg to decide on advice standards in June

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is expected to release a final document outlining the measures to improve professional standards for financial advisers at the end of June. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operating officer Phil ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street finished mostly higher. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,937. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Financial ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The latest fixed income market outlook from BlackRock's Rick Rieder poses the interesting question of whether there are some assets in a portfolio which are there for the long term and others which have a place for a short time, depending on opportunities ...