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Focus Financial looking for more local partners

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... diversification but I want to continue to run my firm in a very independent fashion but I'd like help to grow. "That's pretty much the model and we think what's worked in the US, it's not the same but it has some similarities, has a lot of applications ...

Centrepoint appoints former HUB24 director

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... Centrepoint initiated a renewal process in 2014. He will join Fisher and non-executive directors John O'Shaughnessy and Martin Pretty. The board intends to continue its renewal process and will be seeking another independent director with financial services ...

Banking inquiry cost better spent on ASIC: AFA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... decisions. "We've had I think it is 23 different types of enquiries into financial services already... I think we can be pretty confident that we're all aware of where the issues lie, so let's concentrate on what we do to remedy them. There is considerable ...

CHOICE adds another super voice

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... been either copied from other sectors or driven by regulatory change," Kirkland said. "The digital experience of super is pretty underwhelming - the only major change I've noticed is that I now receive my statements by email. In contrast, digital product ...

Government lagging on super policy: Labor

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
... threshold for the 15% high income superannuation charge from $300,000 to $250,000), Chalmers said: "We think that these two pretty modest changes strike the right balance between fairness and sustainability, they maintain concessionality while reducing ...

Infrastructure pricing reshaping investment landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... market is sometimes unfairly labeled as being the most competitive. "What we've seen is that all sections of the market, in pretty much every jurisdiction globally, are quite competitive. We've got a lot of the same players in each place," Orr said. ...

Not enough super users: Mercer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... workforce) is considerably less than other countries who have well developed and well respected systems. "We thought we might do pretty well here because our super system is compulsory - well it is compulsory for employees earning more than $450 a month. ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... February - the highest reading since July 2010 and the eight straight month of above-50 readings - from 51.5 in January. With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut? And were it not for still low inflation in the country, RBA Gov Glenn and his ...

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... rising by 0.8% in the three months ended December 2015 when they were expected to drop by 3.0% but... they're still not a pretty set of numbers. Uglier still, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), "Estimate 1 for 2016-17 is $82,572m. ...

Magellan average monthly inflows hit $214m

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... confidence in Australian stocks has shaken, and maybe we're getting more interest in global equities and obviously we've got a pretty good representation and get a reasonable share if there is more interest out of retail advisers," he explained. As to ...