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FPA Congress begins amid FoFA unrest

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) Professionals Congress kicked off in Adelaide this morning, in the wake of the Senate's disallowance of the government's changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. "Our professional body has ...

ASIC begins legal action against LM Investment Management

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has begun legal action against LM Investment Management (LMIM) founder Peter Charles Drake and its former directors. The regulator is seeking financial penalties and banning orders following ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
Either they're plain lazy or just simply stupid! Like a dog with a bone, they got it and... ran away with it. I refer to some (thankfully, not most today) financial headlines that connected Wall Street's dip overnight to the Fed's deflation concerns. ...

Sunsuper taps FPA adviser network

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
Sunsuper and the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) have partnered to form a national advice referral program which connects the fund's members with FPA practices across the country. The partnership sees the fund develop direct relationships ...

Platinum reshuffles management after deputy CIO departure

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
The departure of its deputy chief investment officer will see Platinum Asset Management make a number of key management changes from 2015. Jacob Mitchell, the portfolio manager of the Platinum Japan Fund and deputy chief investment officer is set to ...

Infra manager Hastings inks major China deal

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
Infrastructure manager Hastings has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Hong Kong-headquartered China Merchants Investment Development Company Limited (CMID) on the back of yesterday's China-Australia Free Trade Agreement. In April this ...

Financial services Australia's largest industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
Financial services is now Australia's largest industry, accounting for 9% of gross domestic product, a new report has found. The report, which was commissioned by the Financial Services Council and UBS Global Asset Management, also found that "booming ...

Advisers confirm SMSF appetite for LICs

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) investors are showing an appetite for listed investment companies (LICs) according to a new adviser survey. A survey of 30 advisers who attended a recent Perpetual roadshow, revealed that that 57% believe the growth of ...

Liam Shorte named FS Smileys Scholar of the Year

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
Verante Financial Planning director Liam Shorte has won this year's Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence (SMILEYS) Scholarship. The FS Smileys Scholarship, proudly supported by Financial Standard's scholarship partner ...

Bullish sentiment at 4-year high, expect zero return in six months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
So far so good. The men and women of the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) must be giving each other high fives (and down lows) at their success. In spite of the daily ups and downs, it appears to they've been able to wean Wall Street off of QE ...