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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... monthly business survey while the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release quarterly property price data. In equities news, law firm Slater and Gordon are expected to release their half year results, along with biotech firm Cochlear. In Australia ...

ASIC report highlights insufficient penalties

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... overseas non-criminal penalties, at a minimum, may be a multiple of three times the benefit. "Our view is that breaking the law in the financial sector is often a trade-off between fear and greed. Penalties need to amplify the fear of prosecution to ...

Advisers help construction workers build their wealth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
The end of the mining boom has sparked the need for construction workers to seek financial advice to build their wealth, with a number of financial planning firms already targeting them. "We're talking about people who are really busy all the time ...

Atchison Consultants appoints senior consultant

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
Anton Lawrence has joined Atchison Consultants as a senior consultant, with responsibility across portfolio development, product development and market research and analysis. He has over 25 years' experience as a property analyst, fund adviser and fund ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after strong gains on overseas markets overnight and rises in commodity prices. At 0700 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 41 points at 5,384. Euro zone stocks have been ...

Super modern awards anti-competitive: FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... listings. "The concentration of industry funds in the modern award system where retail funds are prevented from competing by law means that more than two million consumers don't get the benefit of full competition," FSC chief executive Sally Loane said. ...

Avestra fined for breaching takeover laws

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
Avestra Asset Management has been convicted and fined $40,000 for breaching takeover laws according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Avestra Asset Management failed to notify the market it had acquired a substantial stake ...

ASIC cancels boutique's AFSL

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
... demonstrate that they have adequate financial resources to continue their financial services business in compliance with the law. "ASIC will act to remove companies from the advice industry where they do not have adequate financial resources and fail ...

Government repeals Palmer FoFA changes

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014
... Party's (PUP) proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation and grandfathering amendments have become law. The registration of the grandfathering provisions will see these regulations become law effective from today. In July ...

New CFO for QSuper

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
QSuper has appointed an internal candidate as its new chief financial officer following a national recruitment process. Kulwant Singh-Pangly will take up the role from December 17 and has served as QSuper's head of tax for the last three years. He will ...