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ASIC to take hard line on deliberately misleading ads

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... scope of financial advice, can create unrealistic expectations that lead to poor financial decisions," Kell told an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) lunch in Sydney. Kell said the commission had already succeeded in removing some ...

AVCAL appoints new chair

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association has appointed David Brown as the new Chair of the governing Council. Brown, who has been a Member of the Council for the past three and a half years, formally takes over the role at the next ...

Rainmaker appoints new head of technical services

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... most recently, as a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney. Proctor is a member of the Financial Planning Association, Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Taxation Institute of Australia. "We recognise that continuing professional development ...

AXA FP advisers begin transition away from brand

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... Waddell, director of AMP's Financial Advice Network (FAN). "We worked closely with our Authorised Representatives' Association and conducted extensive research to understand our advisers' preferred branding option and which solution would offer them ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... ($A11.7 billion) takeover of mobile phone maker Motorola. NEW YORK - Apple says an independent group, the Fair Labor Association, has started inspecting the working conditions in the Chinese factories where its iPads and iPhones are assembled. TURIN ...

New data questions SMSF inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... solid results with $14 billion in 2010. Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) said other figures paint a different picture. "All current data is showing that there has been a steady ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... investors have a sunnier disposition. You can feel it in the air. But for empirical evidence, there's the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey - it "measures the percentage of individual investors who are bullish, bearish ...

Fears Volcker Rule will hit sovereign bond trading

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... investing in or sponsoring a hedge fund or private equity fund, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. The rule is named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker who proposed the new restrictions as an attempt ...

Adviser obligations need to be institutionalised: AFA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... damage caused by events such as the collapse of Storm Financial, according to the head of the AFA. Speaking at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) GenXt Roadshow in Sydney this morning, Richard Klipin said the industry needed to be clear about ...

Colley departs OnePath for SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... In his new role as director of education and professional standards at the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), Colley will drive the development of the group's professional standards and education program. He'll also ...