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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... post full year results. NSW Minister for Fair Trading John Roberts is expected to speak at the 2012 Housing Industry Association Construction Outlook Breakfast. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed lower as worries about global growth and scepticism ...

AFA announces finalists

STAFF REPORTER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced six finalists in its 2012 Adviser of the Year awards. This year Victoria boasts the lion's share of finalists with Jenny Brown of JBS Financial Strategists, Dennis Jones of Beacon Wealth and ...

APRA requirements welcomed by sector

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... not-for-profit super sector which includes industry, corporate and public sector funds. The FSC, AIST and the sector-neutral Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said it was too early to say whether the proposed transparency requirements ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... per cent, to 1,461.05, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 4.82 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 3,182.62. The National Association of Realtors announced that existing-home sales across the country rose by 7.8 per cent from July to a two-year high, and were ...

Super concession cuts ignite SMSF debate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... well targeted and directed to those with lower balances." Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) however, argues that the concept that SMSFs are targeted specifically for tax concessional treatment ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... June quarter international trade in goods and services figures, while the Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association performance of construction index (PCI) for August is scheduled to come out. No major equities news is expected. The Australian ...

Gonski calls for NFP director liability review

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... hopes the commission will devote significant effort to finding a structure that works for NFPs. Arguing for a special association such as New Zealand has introduced and is currently being mooted in Canada, Gonski said of primary concern is a safe harbour ...

Plug the $1 trillion savings shortfall: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... an important debate, but simplistic solutions should be avoided, said Pauline Vamos, chief executive officer, The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). Increasing working lives has the potential to unfairly impact blue-collar workers ...

J.P. Morgan launches risk measure tool

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... Lab (OPAL) is targeted at funds that need to comply with the guidance from the Financial Services Council (FSC) and Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) on the disclosure of investment risk in the new SPDS regime, via the "Standard ...

FSC, ASFA endorse APRA's risk measure stance

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
The Financial Services Council and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia have restated their support for the implementation of the standard risk measure (SRM) in shortened product disclosure statements. The support is in contrast to strong ...