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Nine in 10 Australians can't get no insurance satisfaction: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... calculations while others used online tools. Zurich general manager of retail, life and investments Philip Kewin called it mis-insurance. "The research concluded that mis-insurance - where people do not have the cover they think they have - could have ...

Chinese currency reforms to transform bond benchmarks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
China's short-to-medium-term economic challenges should not distract investors from the long-term rise of the country as a global financial power and the investment opportunities that its emergence will create, according to AllianceBernstein director ...

Vale Gwen Fletcher

JULIE BENNETT  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Australia's First Lady of Financial Planning, Gwen Fletcher passed away peacefully in a Sydney nursing home on Friday 28 February. Gwen played a vital role in extending the financial planning profession beyond America's shores to Australia. It was also ...

FICAP's "Who Wants to be a RockStar" sells out

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
The annual FICAP "Who Wants to be a RockStar" event has sold out with record support led by platinum sponsors ANZ, Challenger, Colonial First State and Perpetual. The event to be held at the Beresford Hotel in Sydney on Thursday 20 March sees members ...

Greg Sword resigns as CEO of LUCRF Super

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
LUCRF Super chief executive Greg Sword will step down after eight years in the role. His last day will be June 30 2014. He informed the LUCRF Super board of his decision this morning in order to provide adequate notice to find a replacement. "This will ...

RBS posts soaring losses, pays $1m bonuses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... Resolution. The provisions include costs to meet US action over mortgage-backed financial products and compensation for the mis-selling in Britain of insurance covering credit products such as consumer loans. It has taken a hit also from mis-selling ...

More to Asia than just Chindia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Investors focusing their Asia interest on just China and India are missing a strategic opportunity to get involved with South East Asia (SEA), a region that is just as big and growing at a similar rate. SEA comprises 14 countries located between Australia ...

ASIC accepts EU from forex broker over prohibited IMA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from online foreign exchange broker Forex Financial Services Pty Ltd (Forex FS). ASIC's investigation found that between March 2010 and October 2011, Forex FS offered an account known as an individually managed ...

'Leaner' HSBC hikes profits, bonuses

BEN PERRY, AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... missed market expectations. Net profit had stood at $US14.03 billion in 2012, when HSBC was hit by US money-laundering fines, mis-selling scandals and a huge accounting charge. Group revenues meanwhile dipped five per cent to $US64.6 billion last year. ...

FPA "extremely wary" of general advice commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) submission to Treasury on the proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) says the organisation is "extremely wary of product distribution models which rely on general advice." The 20-page document ...