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SPAA urges concessional cap rethink

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... balances for retirement. "Female workers also have lower average wages and a higher incidence of parttime work, which reduces their ability to make contributions to save for retirement."

FoFA reforms put professional standards at risk: Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... forward by the government "appropriately." "We will consider if these changes reduce consumer protection and anything that reduces professional standards," he said. Yesterday, as part of its move to wind back the former government's FoFA reforms, Assistant ...

Roast Turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... creates a vicious cycle. You know the drill.A Higher interest rates weakens consumer spending, lowers company profits, reduces business investment, raises unemployment, weakens consumer spending, slows growth, capital flows out, weakens currency, central ...

Government must recycle brownfield infra: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... benefit everyone, and that the capital recycling model was the best option. "This will create a win-win situation. It reduces the budget burden for governments and offers super funds the type of assets they require," he said. The FSC's arguments were ...

Super must not commingle with banks: ISA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... absorbed by or commingled with banks. "Commingling super with banking commingles risk, increases institutional complexity and reduces the diversity of funding sources," he said. The submission argued that industry super funds are better placed to make ...

ASIC beefs up surveillance system

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... speed of the system, which is based on First Derivatives' Delta Stream technology and designed specifically for ASIC, reduces the time taken to produce some analytical reports from several hours to less than one minute. "Globally, regulators face issues ...

Leading fund manager demands reporting rule change

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... ASIC tries, and so a better solution is to require a consistent flow of financial information to the broader market that reduces the value of inside or private information." Abernathy added that ASIC is already aware of the potential for conflict and ...

Market Vectors ETFs get Lonsec seal of approval

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... The result is targeted exposure with real diversification to all underlying securities," he said. "Our index methodology reduces exposure to the large cap companies that dominate many Australian indices, and increases exposure to the most liquid Australian ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... prospects. Uh-oh, the "new normalians" could be right then. Slow US growth as far as the eyes can see. A smaller labour force reduces long-run growth potential. Fewer workers supporting the economy supporting more workers who are unemployed or discouraged ...

Thousands of finance workers face axe: FSU

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... are feeling very insecure at the moment," she told Financial Standard. Her comments come as the National Australia Bank reduces staff as part of a plan unveiled by chief executive Cameron Clyne to cut $800 million in costs a year by 2018. According to ...