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Westpac calm in face of storm

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Westpac's batten-down-the-hatches approach balance sheet management means it's better suited than its rivals to weather future financial storms. The bank is just emerging from a period of consolidation. Jobs have been cut and efficiencies made but the ...

Beware greedy SMSF intermediaries

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... "Accountants and planners will welcome all the extra business and adopt innovative ways of coping with the extra demand." Chris Batten, managing director of Macquarie Group Services, a provider of tax and superannuation education and products, warns ...

Delay FoFA reforms another year: Lawyer

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012

Older Australians delaying retirement

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
A report unveiled yesterday by financial services and superannuation minister, Bill Shorten, revealed that 50% of older Australian intend to delay retirement. The report, titled Financial Wellbeing: Concerns and choices amongst older Australians, also ...

FOFA disadvantages early move on fee-for-service

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... through the product fee in this scenario - where's the incentive for them to move to a fee-for-service model?" Richard Batten, partner at Minter Ellison Lawyers, said there may be a lack of consistency with elements of the draft relating to conflicted ...

FOFA will not be delayed: Minter Ellison

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... there being any delays. It would require a change to legislation to do that and I'm sure that there won't be," said Richard Batten, partner, Minter Ellison. Batten speculated that the government would not want any loose ends before the next election ...

FOFA 'unclear' on legal position of advisers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... the draft legislation will be how advice services are linked to administrative and other services, according to Richard Batten, partner in Financial Services at Minter Ellison. "You have advice and you also have dealing, execution and administration ...

Legal threats loom over poor SMSF advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... prompted many advisers to start advising on this specialist area despite not being fully equipped to do so, said Christopher Batten, director at Macquarie Group Services. Speaking yesterday at the FS Technical Services Forum, a gathering of technical ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... present a credible, concerted and concrete solution to these problems, perhaps the most prudent course of action is to batten down the hatches and accept that things will worsen before they become better. We heard from the G-7 finance ministers' pow-wow ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... lie in what they think the political leaders and polymakers think is the main problem - debt or jobs? If it's debt then batten down the hatches because developed world economies are about to launch a wave of fiscal contraction that will drive down growth ...