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Family office model attractive to feuding families

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... reporting. Typically a family establishes a family office to invest the cash generated from a liquidity event such as the sale of a family business, the result of a significant inheritance and/or built up over time from cash flows from a trading business. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
The share market is lower due to falls on overseas markets and uncertainty about what will be contained in next week's Federal budget. "The federal budget is having a big dampening impact on buying in the market, and until that is done and dusted there's ...

BNP Paribas appoints custody product head

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
BNP Paribas Securities Services, a global custodian with over $8 trillion in assets under custody, has appointed Justin Burman as head of product - asset and fund services (AFS) in Australia. Burman is responsible for market research and analysis, service ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Were you not as surprised as I was? I bet you weren't Virginia, not even your uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck ...

Tens of thousands flock to Omaha

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... the Berkshire stable, reportedly sold souvenir ketchup. A bottle with Buffett's face cost $2 while sidekick Munger was on sale for just $1.50.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street gained despite continuing concern over escalating tension in Ukraine and poor industrial data from China. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up nine ...

New reports to stir financial planning perfect storm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
New information about the sales-driven culture inside the Commonwealth Bank's financial planning unit has prompted the Financial Planning Association (FPA) to leap to advisers' defense. Tonight's airing of 'Banking Bad' on the ABC's Four Corners program ...

IOSCO recommends improved disclosure for direct products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... pressure on consumer protection regulation that is centred around traditional distribution. The Joint Forum in its 'Point of Sale disclosure in the insurance, banking and securities sectors' report said: "Key information about a product [should be] presented ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened flat as cautious traders wait for the release of key employment figures in the US. IG market strategist Chris Weston said it had been a lacklustre start to the morning following a mixed lead overnight. He said ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after a mixed performance on Wall Street ahead of key US jobs figures. At 0645 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 13 points at 5,447. Locally in economic news on Friday ...