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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... an unemployment rate of 6.1 per cent. "The unemployment rate at 5.8 per cent is much better than expected," Invast Securities chief market analyst Peter Esho said. "It will probably be the most significant development on the market this morning." He ...

CBA promoted Nguyen to keep him away from clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has heard that the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) promoted financial planner Don Nguyen, despite allegations of fraud. Speaking at the inquiry Commonwealth ...

SEC reopens target date funds disclosure review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
The US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has reopened its review into enhanced disclosure regulations for target date funds, a sector that they believe is very difficult for investors to compare. The review was launched following recommendations ...

ASIC should regulate SMSFs as a financial product: PwC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... that individual self-managed super funds (SMSF) should be treated as a financial product regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In a submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), PwC alerted that account balances ...

ASIC eyes fee for service funding model

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider changing the regulator's funding model to one partly based on fee for service. In a submission to the Murray inquiry, ASIC proposed to charge ...

PM Capital eyes Asia fund listing

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
Equity fund manager PM Capital is set to list its Asian Opportunities Fund on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The initial public offering is the second of its kind for the group after the successful launch of its first listed investment company ...

AMP launches infrastructure and real estate UCITS platform

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... a Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS platform with versions of its Global Listed Infrastructure Fund and Global Real Estate Securities Fund available to investors in the UK, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The platform was made available after demand from global ...

ASIC dictates seven-year ban for rogue CBA adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser Jade Zaicew for seven years. Zaicew's banning follows ASIC actions against former CBA advisers Don Nguyen, Ricky Gillespie, Simon Langton ...

AFA focuses FSI submission on FoFA "misinformation campaign"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should have stepped in to address what the association calls a "campaign of misinformation" ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... skimmed by HFTs (high frequency traders)? It's become big news that Australia's prudential regulator - the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) - has reportedly threatened to clamp down on hyper speed trades. Reuters reports that New ...