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We did a "pretty good job" in CBA planning case: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) commissioner Greg Tanzer believes that the regulator "did a pretty good job" in dealing with the Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFP) case that prompted a Senate inquiry into the overall performance ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... awards. "Funds that don't have a brand and are not able to rely on the awards system for new members, are going to find it pretty tough going." Unlike bank-owned retail funds, which gain new members primarily through aligned advisers and bank branch ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... Heffernan said the Australian bourse had opened in a veritable sea of green. "There's no doubt that the American market's pretty solid performance last night is the key catalyst for our performance," Mr Heffernan said. He said investors were also taking ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... Maybe not well enough on the economy, but too well on the stock market. This is where I ask, request, beg our IT people to pretty please make this system be able to show charts.A Please... A picture would have better explained the previous paragraph ...

Providers not meeting demand for aged care products

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... 2014. "For lots of advisers specialised in aged care, there are not enough tools and all the work around calculations is pretty manual at the moment," Investment Strategists director and adviser Anna Garuccio told Financial Standard. Garuccio noted that ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... himself a job selling life insurance for AMP - a job he did "very unsuccessfully". "With age comes credibility, and I was pretty young to be out there in those days selling insurance," he says. After 18 months, he moved to a job at Tooheys, working in ...

APRA to scrutinise group insurance risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... that, with regard to the plethora of requirements associated with the Stronger Super reforms, "the time of forbearance is pretty much coming to an end." He went on: "We realised that people were doing their best efforts to meet our standards, and we ...

CBA: Expect higher inflation

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... years. Blythe explained that even with the surprise jump in inflation in December, the overall inflation rate has been "pretty well behaved overall", staying comfortably within the Reserve Bank's 2%-3% target range. However, he said that a splitting ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... board meeting was viewed by investors as a negative for the Australian economy. "The reason being, we have already seen a pretty sharp depreciation in the Aussie dollar, which has translated to an inflation risk for the Australian market," he told AAP. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... board meeting was viewed by investors as a negative for the Australian economy. "The reason being, we have already seen a pretty sharp depreciation in the Aussie dollar, which has translated to an inflation risk for the Australian market," he told AAP. ...