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Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open lower following sharp losses on Wall Street. At 0650 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 30 points at 5,748. Wall Street stocks fell one per cent on a strengthening US ...

ASIC bans Macquarie representative

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recently banned a former Macquarie Entities representative from providing financial services for five years. The ban was given to Brett O'Malley of Sunshine Beach, Queensland, after he engaged ...

ANZ taps clean investing with green bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
Clean investing gains momentum in Australia as ANZ issues its first green bond and Local Government Super (LGS) joins the global Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition (PDC). ANZ's first green bond will fund projects that have positive environmental or ...

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
With minimum education standards surely now set to rise in the financial planning industry, the Financial Standard team has asked experts to outline what the new rules might look like and the possible routes advisers can take. What qualities will the ...

Treasury proposes higher regulatory levies for super funds

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
The Treasury has issued its proposed regulatory levies for 2015/16. Under the new proposal, APRA-regulated institutions will collectively pay $117.5 million to help fund the prudential regulator, a half-percent increase on the previous financial year. ...

APRA releases super performance profiles

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) said it will continue to ensure confidential information of superannuation institutions cannot be derived from the regulator's published statistics. The pledge came in a recent APRA letter to Registrable ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Mums and dads have increasingly chosen to invest their superannuation in direct low-fee retail products over the last 12 months. Particularly so at BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice with both recording funds under management growth of more than ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
You name it, we've got it. It's the drop in oil prices, it's the recovery in oil prices. It's the strong US dollar, it's the weakening US dollar in recent weeks. It's the "transitory" weakness in the US economy, it's the weakening US economy, it's... ...

NAS retains Cooper Investors custody

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
NAB Asset Servicing will retain custodial services for global and Australian equities fund manager Cooper Investors for another three years. The manager has roughly $10 billion in funds under management and has appointed NAS as its custodian since 2004. ...

Link Group moves up in Melbourne

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Superannuation administration and data analytics company Link Group is moving its Melbourne base across to a custom-designed, 10-floor office space at 727 Collins Street, Docklands. After investing more than $300 million in technology and doubling its ...