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Actuaries Institute to advise FSI on longevity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... increased demand for retirement products such as life annuities will lead to an increase in demand for fixed income securities such as government and corporate bonds. On the question of the relatively high fees charged by Australian superannuation funds ...

Challenger adds firepower to annuities business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... which to inject further capital into the business in the future. In announcing its full year result on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) last week the company said the capital initiatives will assist the achievement of "step-up increases in Challenger ...

Adviser jailed for blowing client funds on fast cars

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... rent sports cars and buy a house has been jailed for more than five years following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Carlo Cini, a former director of Williamstown-based company, C Cini & Company, received ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... of the Fed's plan to raise benchmark interest rates. Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities, said the Fed minutes showed "nothing really new" about the central bank's thinking on interest rates. But James said the market ...

Multi-asset emerging market approach halves volatility

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... with the number and diversity of issuers much greater today than it was 10 years ago." He went on to explain that all securities exposed to emerging markets - whether they be emerging markets stocks, developed market stocks with earnings derived from ...

Challenger to raise $530m to fund further annuities growth

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... $30 million retail share placement and a $250 million convertible notes issue. In an announcement on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) the company said the capital initiatives will assist the achievement of step-up increases in Challenger Life's ...

Greens slam CBA executives pay rise

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... clients from 2003 to 2012. The compensation process was set up following an exhaustive Senate inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) prompted by cases of poor advice at CBA. The inquiry concluded that poor advice was ...

Licensees must be more open to social media: AFA

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... advisers in the US, but there has been very slow adoption." However he said this stagnation could soon change after the Securities and Investments Commission (SEC) Division of Investment Management issued "Guidance on the testimonial rule and social ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... policy mix in the second half of this year as officials try to lower financing costs in the economy, the official China Securities Journal said in a commentary Friday." "The leading securities newspaper said the need to stabilize the housing market is ...

Maurice Blackburn mulls class action against Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... compensation scheme made public last Friday reproduced the same problems that the Senate inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) identified in Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) compensation of financial advice clients. "This ...