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The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
S&P 500 2000 here we come! It won't be long now. Yes Virginia, with the S&P 500 index less than 50 points away (or 2.5%) from the 2,000-point milestone it'll just a few more sleeps and it'll be there - my back of the envelope calculation show that the ...

Federal Court hears FSC's complaints against FWC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has put its case against the composition of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) Expert Panel to the Federal Court in Sydney this morning. The FSC's counsel put forward three points challenging the current composition ...

YBR acquires mortgage aggregator for $17.6 million

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
Wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has received irrevocable acceptance from all 24 shareholders in Vow Financial Holdings for its offer to acquire 100% of the mortgage aggregator. The offer valued Vow at $17.6 million and shareholders have ...

ISA gives evidence to PC on inverted bid model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... One of the PC's concerns with the model was around the suggestion that the government guarantee an internal rate of return (IRR) in the event that the infrastructure project did not deliver as expected. In its latest submission, ISA recommended that ...

Blue Sky Water appoints investment director

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
Blue Sky Water Partners, a division of Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited, has appointed Michael Blakeney as investment director. Blue Sky said Blakeney brings considerable management and investment experience across a range of agricultural enterprises ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
The share market has made a better than expected start to the week, with gains in most sectors. Monday is the final day of trading for the third quarter of the financial year, which would probably lead to sporadic and irregular trading as investors ...

PC examines Weaven's 'inverted bid' infra model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... the extent to which a government would take on the risk of the project in the form of a guaranteed internal rate of return (IRR). "Providing a guaranteed rate of return reduces long-term equity's incentive to perform efficiently, as long-term equity ...

ATO doing a good job on SMSFs: Cooper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is rising to the challenge of efficiently regulating the self-managed superannuation sector, according to Challenger's chairman of retirement income Jeremy Cooper. Cooper said that, contrary to perceptions that it ...

General advice exemption "irrelevant" to advisers: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has judged the general advice exemption to conflicted remuneration "irrelevant" in its submission to Treasury about the proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA). "The AFA does not believe ...

SMSF borrowing under control, ATO figures suggest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
Fears that low interest rates are encouraging self-managed super funds (SMSFs) to over-borrow to invest in real estate appear to be overblown, according to figures released by the Australian Taxation Office. According to the ATO's stats for the September ...