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Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... Statistics is slated to release international trade prices indexes for December quarter. Also, the Housing Industry Association's new home sales data for December 2012 is due out, as is the National Australia Bank's December quarter Residential Property ...

CBUS to review products to tempt SMSFs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... project which is also looking to review the offering for members approaching and moving into retirement," he said. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Pauline Vamos said yesterday that while other funds might not do the same ...

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 ...

SPAA joins UN group

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The SMSF Professionals Association of Australia has become the first Australian financial services group to join a United Nations independent financial advice convention. Yesterday the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) said it had joined ...

Super funds argue against unfair fee rules

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... servicing the account does not go up in proportion with its balance after a certain point. Chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Pauline Vamos said in her testimony that if a fee cap is not put in the final tranche ...

First State Super tracking well after merger

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... Australia's third largest pension fund. First State super boss Michael Dwyer, who last year won the Fund Executive Association Limited's executive of the year award, said that after wading through a host of regulatory and operational challenges, the ...

RIAA appoints new chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has appointed Simon O'Connor as its new chief executive, it was announced today. Louise O'Halloran stepped down from the role at the end of 2012 after more than a decade with the company. O'Connor ...

Baby boomers stagger blindfold into retirement: REST

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... the $56,236 'comfortable lifestyle' budget for a couple and $41,090 budget for single people, as estimated by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). Only 30% of baby boomers surveyed had actually sought formal financial advice ...

US pension fund pulls gun investments

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
California State Teachers Association Retirement System (Calstrs), a $154 billion US pension fund, looks set to pull its investments in gun manufacturers in light of the recent mass shooting at Sandy Hook. California Treasurer and board member Bill ...

PhillipCapital boosts local presence

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... recently awarded (for the third consecutive year) Best Retail Broker (2010, 2011 and 2012) by the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS). Commenting on recent developments, chairman of PhillipCapital in Australia Michael Wong iterated plans ...