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I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... here's the rub, Australia's neighbours know that drill too. Not a few central banks have and/are engaging in Newton's third law of motion - "for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction" - some more equal than others if I may say so - by cutting ...

Law should stop banks "bundling" super: ISA

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... business banking services with employee default superannuation," Whiteley continued. "In the best interests' of employees, the law should be changed to prohibit a bank-owned super fund from providing default super services where it is also the provider ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open higher after a mixed night in overseas markets. At 0652 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up seven points at 5,885. The Dow Jones index was down 0.2 per cent going into the ...

Details of new SMSF accreditation revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... providing practical help. "We've tried to cover off lots of different professions so it's peppered with areas focusing on the law, advice, accounting and auditing. It's tailored towards arming helping professionals arm trustees with everything they need ...

Law firm targets disgruntled advice clients using Twitter

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
Legal firm Slater and Gordon is using Twitter to ask financial planning clients if they are satisfied with the advice that they have received, and encouraging them to "do something about it." "Do you have concerns about the quality of financial advice ...

In the archives: Mavis Robertson on the importance of more women on boards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... after the roundtable and the two-part article series. In the summer of 2003, the Norwegian government introduced an unlikely law: it called on all publicly listed companies and state-owned companies to have a gender quota of at least 40 per cent women ...

Vale Mavis Robertson AM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... the good governance of the not for profit superannuation sector." Robertson is survived by her son Peter, her daughter in law, Marjorie and grandchildren Alec and Molly. An extract of a 2010 FS phone interview with Mavis Robertson where she talked about ...

WTF moment on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... Freud? But if share prices and company profits go together like a horse and carriage - as they should like the incontrovertible law of physics - maybe not. It's a commonly accepted "ism" that the stock market is forward looking which begs the question ...

Law firm deems SIV changes unworkable

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... venture capital projects could spell disaster for the scheme because Chinese investors want low risk assets, according to law firm Hall & Wilcox. The proposed changes, raised in an Austrade discussion paper include investing minimum 50% in venture capital ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... million capital raising from institutional investors. Slater and Gordon jumped 18 cents, or 2.7 per cent, to $6.79 after the law firm lifted its first half profit by almost 47 per cent. Engineering group Bradken shares plummeted almost 25 per cent after ...