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BT Wrap adds Pengana Asia Special Events Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
The BT Wrap platform has added Pengana's Asia Special Events Fund to its investment offering and it is available to advisers and their clients. The fund invests on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, capital management initiatives ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after a mixed performance on Wall Street in its last session. At 0923 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,265. In economic news on Monday, the TD Securities ...

FPA condemns FoFA fear mongers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has urged planners to "rise above the noise of tired, product-centric arguments" in the early days of the watered-down Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. On 20 December 2013 Assistant Treasurer ...

ETF assets tipped to reach $13 billion in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014
State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) has forecast exchange traded fund (ETF) assets under management in Australia will swell to $13 billion over the next 12 months. The domestic ETF market proved popular in 2013, with funds under management rising by ...

ASIC publishes Medcraft travel details

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
Documents released by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) show that chairman Greg Medcraft spent more than 80 days overseas on business trips last year. The documents reveal that the majority of these visits include meetings ...

In praise of the gloom and doomers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014

Start structured giving with just $20,000

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013

SPAA defends status quo on SMSF regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
The self-managed superannuation super (SMSF) sector is not being poorly regulated, according to SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery. Slattery's comments came in response to a recent survey in which around ...

Consumers find super 'mind-boggling', survey shows

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
Consumers view superannuation as "risky", "complex", "mind-boggling" and "stressful", according to a new consumer survey commissioned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The purpose of the survey, conducted by Latitude Insights ...

"People who complain are gotten rid of": ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
A submission to the Senate inquiry into the regulator's performance provides yet another testimony of a culture of "cronyism and favouritism" which includes threats and harassment of employees. The testimony comes from a former employee of the Australian ...