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Could ASIC become the SMSF regulator?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... Commission (ASIC) could be a taste of things to come, according to lawyer Claire Wivell Plater, managing director of The Fold. "There's a discussion at the regulatory level going on about whether the ATO [Australian Tax Office] is the appropriate body ...

Advisers to justify platform choice under best interest

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... to understand." "This increases the risk that the investor will make a decision that is not in their best interest." The Fold Legal managing director Claire Wivell Plater said that as a consequence advisers will need to include additional information ...

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... whether or not the Fed could taper soon or not and by a large or small amount. "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away and know when to run." -Kenny Logins, The Gambler The Fed after all remains the major game ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
It's now or never. Last chance to place your bets - check, raise or fold - before Big Ben Bernanke shows his hands. Gauging from Wall Street's back-to-back gains over the first two trading days of this week, it appears that the money is on Big Ben revealing ...

Employed advisers could face $200k liability under FoFA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... Best Interests Duty if they are authorised representatives (ARs), according to Charmian Holmes, solicitor director at The Fold Legal (the Fold). Once the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms kick in, ARs could be liable for up to $200,000 in fines ...

SBBs to be part of NGS Super's new ethical option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Industry fund NGS Super is currently designing an ethical option that will include environmentally sound investments with other ethical investments such as social benefit bonds (SSBs). "We are taking our current green shares option, and folding that ...

Admin costs rise four-fold off-platform: research

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
Advisers who choose to go off-platform when handling client investments could be hit with higher admin costs, in one case four times more compared with staying on-platform, research found. The report undertaken by Praxis Partners and commissioned by ...

South Africa leads foreign investment in the continent

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... received the largest share of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the African continent, with the figure rising more than five-fold from $1.2 billion in 2010 to $6.4 billion in 2012. The figures came from the 'Global Investment Trends Monitor' report ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... the systemic risks may not be small." Ergo, Super Mario will do 'whatever it takes' to bring the tiny island back to the fold. While Cyprus has created headlines everywhere, financial markets (save for the knee-jerk selling the day after the weekend ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... Venezuela's SE General Index, the benchmark equity market index increased by an exponential 1,549.4% (more than a thousand fold). Yes, Venezuela. The home of the late President Hugo Chavez. The man who, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "...has seized ...