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ASIC lowers wholesale investor threshold to $2.5 million

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees with net assets of at least $2.5 million could be classified as wholesale investors by their financial advisers, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has determined. The regulator has issued ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Australia will be one of the countries most impacted by the seismic shift which will put Asia at the centre of a new world order. That is the opinion of the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and ...

Advice register talks focus on financial advice scope

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
At its first meeting last week, the government's industry committee on the proposed register of advisers focused what kind of financial advisers should be included. The advice register working group met last Thursday and will meet again before mid-August ...

IOOF launches defensive equity portfolio

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
The IOOF MultiMix investment team has launched a defensive equity portfolio as a response to the decline in cash and bond yields. "The decline in cash and bond yields has meant that income needs to be sought elsewhere," IOOF portfolio manager of Australian ...

Macquarie rebukes advice, compliance concerns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
Macquarie has issued its first public statement since a Senate Economics Committee report flagged "systemic failings of compliance" within its advice business two weeks ago. The group said that it has been working with the Australian Securities and ...

GARS added to BT Wrap platform

HARRY PAGE, MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
Standard Life Investments' flagship multi-asset absolute return fund is now available on the BT Wrap platform. Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) was established in the UK in 2006. The multi-asset strategy aims to provide positive returns irrespective ...

Credit Suisse named best UHNW bank in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
Credit Suisse has been named the most outstanding institution for its Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) service offering ($50 million plus) at the Australian Private Banking Awards for the fourth consecutive year. The Australian Private Banking Awards are ...

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
A correction is looming... and soon! Right on schedule Virginia, we're again hearing calls for a dip, a fall, a stumble, a correction on Wall Street straight after both the S&P 500's and the Dow's climb to fresh record highs last week, yet again. How ...

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Irregularities amounting to more than $US5 billion ($A5.41 billion) have been found at China's sovereign wealth fund and two large state-owned banks, according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse into the opaque management of government-controlled ...

AFA launches 2014 mentoring program

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has launched its 2014/15 mentoring program, an annual initiative aimed at promoting professional standards and giving advice to young advisers. AFA GenXt National chair Fraser Jack said the mentoring program ...