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Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
The Trowbridge report likely won't become the "blueprint" for the life industry, said former Financial Planning Association of Australia chair Matthew Rowe. In a newspaper column, Rowe explained that this was because of disagreements between key members ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... releases its April board meeting minutes while RBA governor Glenn Stevens delivers a speech at an American Australian Association lunch in New York. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases March's international merchandise imports data. Meanwhile ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... Stevens' mind - one that he shared to his audience (and the world) last night in his "Address to The American Australian Association luncheon" in New York. Many of 'em us, Australians all, already know too well: the declining terms of trade; the slow ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
They talk the talk but aren't walking the talk. This is what I walk out with after poring through the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) sentiment and asset allocation surveys conducted in the last week of March. In its 2 April report ...

FSI must lift value in super system: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) has called on the federal government to lift the value of Australia's superannuation system and retirement incomes. The call comes as one of four key issues raised by AVCAL in ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... of safe, liquid investments available for institutional investors to deploy their vast amounts of cash. Asked at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Investment Interchange in Sydney last month whether he was comfortable with the ...

Policies can adjust super tax concessions: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia believes there are policies the federal government could implement promptly to adjust superannuation tax concessions. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said lifetime caps on concessional and non-concessional ...

ASIC launches planner register

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... based on a combination of customer reviews (which planners are able to dispute) and criteria such as qualifications, association memberships, industry experience and other "compliance checks". Adviser Ratings spokesman Christopher Zinn commented on the ...

BOQ provides exclusive banking solution to AFA members

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
Bank of Queensland subsidiary BOQ Specialist has partnered with the Association of Financial Advisers to deliver a bespoke banking service to members. The service provides a "holistic banking package" which includes a variable fixed home loan allowing ...

Industry bodies respond to Hockey's tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
The Financial Services Council, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees have responded to some of the questions raised in Treasurer Joe Hockey's Tax Discussion Paper. FSC chief executive Sally ...