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AFA GenXt roadshow connects knowledge and performance

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will focus on education and knowledge as a means to drive business and client performance at this year's GenXt National Roadshow. More than 1,500 people are expected to attend the roadshows that are taking ...

Industry waiting on Frydenberg for adviser education guidance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The financial services industry is waiting on newly-appointed Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to make public the government's position on the Senate inquiry into adviser education standards. Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains in oil prices and US and European sharemarkets. The March share price index futures contract was up 76 points at 5,307. On Friday, Wall Street stocks gained one per cent as oil prices rebounded ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The fossil fuel divestment push is gathering pace, this time with 295 faculty members of Stanford University in the US writing to its board of trustees asking them to divest its $25 billion endowment fund from the investment sector. The Stanford University ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat despite a surge on Wall Street where stocks rebounded from a sell-off in energy shares after positive retail and unemployment data came out. At 0645 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures ...

ASIC accepts EU from Victorian adviser

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from former Professional Investment Services (PIS) representative Seamus O'Brien. O'Brien previously traded as Cambridge Financial Planning in South ...

Macquarie executive tops industry salary survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
Macquarie Group chief executive Nicholas Moore has topped the list of highest paid listed financial services company executive. According to figures compiled by the Australian Financial Review, Moore received a total of $13.1 million in 2014, up 48% ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
"'Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la...", "silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright..." Bah, humbug! The negative news flow and speculations over the past 24 hours would, like ol' Ebenezer Scrooge, make you, I and Irene hate Christmas. ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
Where would this, 'tis the season to be jolly, without the Grinch stealing Christmas? Just when we thought financial markets would be jingling all the way into the New Year - helped by the unarguably strong US employment report for November - we're ...