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Don't overlook culture and discipline: MFS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... Warren Buffett said at the company's recent AGM in Omaha, "Culture is everything at Berkshire." "Culture has to come from the top. It has to be consistent. It has to be part of written communications and rewarded when followed and punished when not." ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after US stocks lost ground overnight. At 0651 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 24 points at 5,631. Wall Street fell for a second straight session following disappointing ...

Financial services SMEs top confidence survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
The financial services sector has ranked number one for optimism in the latest survey of SMEs conducted by Bibby Financial Services. Conducted in March, the Bibby Barometer survey quizzed 620 smaller companies (defined as having fewer than 200 employees) ...

LGS launches shareholder voting website

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... transparency and disclosure of how the fund invests its members' retirement savings. As LGS holds shares in the majority of the top listed companies in Australia and overseas, it is entitled to vote at the shareholder meetings on most of the ASX200 companies ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... off the shops. It's crude oil. The oil price slide has forced closures in the oil industry. According to Baker Hughes - "A top-tier oilfield service company with a century-long track record" - the US oil rig count totalled 734 as at 17 April, down from ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... slowing US growth. HONG KONG - Asian markets slipped with more weak US data raising questions about the health of the world's top economy and the dollar edging down as an early interest rate rise looks increasingly unlikely. Sydney plunged 1.85 per cent ...

Industry meets behind closed doors to fix advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and over 20 industry and consumer bodies met on April 29th to reach a consensus on lifting professional, ethical and education standards for financial advisers. The roundtable is the first of three and will focus ...

Govt should support pensioner reverse mortgage access: CIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... argues that to solve this policy contradiction the family home should be utilised to fund a reverse mortgage that will pay a top-up to the age pension, although the pension entitlement may drop for some pensioner homeowners because income from the reverse ...

Australians wary of new investments: Legg Mason

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... where they may place their money in 2015. However Australians weren't interested in their own country, placing China at the top, followed by the US, Singapore and India. More than 75% of Australians described themselves as conservative compared to a ...

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The Future Fund ranked worst in managing climate change risk, along with three other top superannuation funds in Australia, an Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) global survey revealed. REST, Telstra Super, Super SA, Asgard and GESB also received ...