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Australian Ethical launches country's first ethical bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... Australian Ethical chief investment officer David Macri said. The strategy currently has a 41% allocation to Australian Government bonds, 35% in corporate bonds that meet ethical screen, 18% in State Government bonds from Victoria, SA, NT and ACT and ...

Financial services export industry must rival iron ore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... in Australia," he said. The income generated by these assets would steadily increase tax revenue for the Australian Government. The FSC used the conference as a platform to launch new research by Deloitte Access Economics which shows the government would ...

FSC Conference: Industry urged to prepare for Asia Passport pilot

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... competition from similarly crafted ASEAN and Chinese schemes, as well as the dominant UCITS structure, the Australian government is working to achieve commonality between the schemes so that they might one day be combined. Lo says there is a lack of ...

ASIC announces National Financial Literacy Strategy

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... tools and resources to help them make their financial decisions," ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said. The Australian Government Financial Literacy Board chairman Paul Clitheroe said being good with money can improve our lives. "Educating the next generation ...

Australian students get top marks for financial literacy

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... management at school. The release of PISA coincides with ASIC's release of an independent evaluation of the Australian Government's Helping Our Kids Understand Finances (HOKUF), now known as ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching program. The evaluation showed ASIC's ...

Federal Court judgements contradictory on adviser liability

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
The Federal Court has issued two separate and contradictory judgements that cast a doubt over financial advisers' proportionate liability when facing client legal claims. Within less than one month, the Full Court of the Federal Court has judged the ...

Australia signs FATCA agreement with US

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Australian government has signed an inter-governmental agreement with the United States to implement the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in a bid to improve international tax compliance. The agreement, together with relevant enabling ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... Australia's future economic development.."For example, one of the key tenets of the Wallis Report was that the Australian Government should not guarantee financial institutions," Murray told the Committee of Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) conference ...

OneVentures launches second fund for HNWs and instos

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... capital limited partnership in 2010, raised $40 million and was supported by $20 million in funding from the Australian government's innovation investment fund. The fund was the first in Australia to tap into a growing trend in the Australian market ...

British govt to introduce pension choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... Britain's conservative government has a very different attitude to financial sector reform than does the Australian government, the British government consultation paper noted they would "introduce a new duty on pension providers and schemes to deliver ...