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Future Fund returns 12.8% for 2012

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... important to maintain a disciplined medium-to-long-term view, and focus on diversification, he said. Global equities, debt securities and Australian equities made up more than half the fund in 2012. The Future Fund returned 7% for the first six months ...

Ripoll thanks industry for reforms support

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... pleasing to be able to work with industry in working through these changes," Ripoll, also speaking alongside Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner Peter Kell, said. Ripoll, who chaired the Government's Joint Committee on ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release its building approvals for December. The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute Monthly Inflation Gauge and the Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey are also both expected ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... economic news on Monday, Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release its building approvals for December. The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute Monthly Inflation Gauge and the Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey are both expected. No ...

SPAA urges SMSF auditors to register with regulator

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... possible so they are cleared to audit funds when the new licensing regime comes in to effect on 1 July. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) opened registration of SMSF auditors yesterday saying auditors can apply for registration ...

Mac Private Wealth forced to rectify serious deficiencies

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Macquarie Private Wealth has given the Australian Securities and Investments Commission an enforceable undertaking to right recurring compliance deficiencies dating back more than five years. The regulator's review of compliance systems and client files ...

HESTA retains J.P. Morgan for custody services

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... relationship with the $21 billion fund, and the decision would see it continue to provide custody, portfolio administration, securities lending, and compliance and unit pricing services. HESTA executive manager of investments and governance Rob Fowler ...

ISN welcomes financial planner fee guidance

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Industry Super Network has welcomed fee disclosure guidance released last week by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission. Industry Super Network chief David Whiteley said that transparency around financial planner remuneration under the ...

FPA grief over new fee rules

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The Financial Planning Association has said it is "concerned" with a part of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission's final guidance on fee disclosure. Today the corporate watchdog handed down guidelines that tell Australian financial services ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... bubble. "In essence, bubbles occur when prices continue to rise because enough investors believe that they can buy securities at the current price and then sell them at even higher prices," he said. "However, the key drivers for the current bond market ...