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Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Research houses to blame for advice catastrophes: AIOFP

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP) said that research houses' conflicts of interest when rating products are one of the reasons behind the failure of some funds. In a submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Hehe. Excusez-moi s'il vous plait. Pardon my French, Virginia. Some of the headlines made me do it. The headlines that say Wall Street's up because of easing tensions in the Ukraine and... "improving outlook for the biggest economy" (you know who you ...

La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... governance, and a stable financial profile". La Trobe Financial has also been strongly rated by other independent Rating Houses including Lonsec - Recommended, Zenith - Recommended and SQM Superior Research - 4 Stars. La Trobe Financial president Greg ...

Capital Group appoints two senior executives

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... Brown will be responsible for relationships and business development across dealerships, advisers, platforms and research houses. He joined Capital Group on 3 February from Perpetual where he was general manager for adviser distribution. Capital Group ...

Two 'recommendations' awarded to Carnegie Trust

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Lonsec and Zenith have given 'Recommended' ratings to the Carnegie WorldWide Equity Trust in the research houses' first review of the Trust. With the aim to provide access to Carnegie Asset Management's global equity strategy to Australian wholesale ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
Both houses of the US Congress have passed a bill to increase the US debt ceiling, with no additional debt ceiling increases expected to be needed until 2015. It was passed first in the House of Representatives 221 to 201 after an estimated 30 Republicans ...

Advisers and accountants clash over SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... seen as second best to the accountants," Salmon explained. At the same time, accountants view SMSFs as "a tax vehicle that houses their investments," while "a financial planner sees an SMSF as a product offering, like a wrap." "There's a fight between ...

Zurich appoints national head of sales

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
... developing, promoting and delivering Zurich's life insurance proposition in conjunction with distribution partners and research houses across Australia. Marshall was previously regional manager of Life Risk at Zurich in Victoria and has more than 20 ...

BlackRock ends "unfair" analyst surveys

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... Investments Commission (ASIC) recently conducted a review into domestic incidences of fund managers sending surveys to research houses, after some research houses became concerned about the potential improper use of their research surveys by fund managers ...