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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... doubts that the plan could pass intact in a deeply divided Congress, with the House of Representatives controlled by opposition Republicans. PRECIOUS METALS Gold slid on Friday, closing its worst week since June, as profit-taking by investors and a spike ...

FOFA: Opt-in obligations, ASIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... public consultation. The two-year renewal opt-in for financial advisers has been given the green light, despite industry opposition that it will be too expensive for advisers to complete. Shorten has adopted the Rice Warner estimate that opt-in would ...

Industry body applauds move to define financial planners

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... first tranche of draft legislation on the future of financial advice reforms released today. While maintaining its opposition to opt-in, Rantall said that the FPA was happy with today's announcements, which had reduced some of the ambiguity surrounding ...

Politicians spar over future of superannuation guarantee

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... the lifting of the superannuation guarantee from 9% to 12%. He issued a press release gleefully advertising that the opposition's shadow treasurer Joe Hockey had told the Lower House that the Coalition "strongly supports superannuation". "If you really ...

IFM hits back at claims it plays politics with super fund money

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... campaign was instead about the IFM's 12.4% net average return for its infrastructure fund over the past 16 years. The opposition has called for the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to investigate whether industry super funds were using members' ...

Time-based and opt-in preferred: MSI survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... I'd prefer a higher set up cost and implementation charge and then a time-based fee." Despite the industry's vocal opposition to opt-in, it seems survey respondents felt differently with 66% finding opt-in "a positive move", although 35% did agree that ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Equiti Capital has announced former Federal MP and Opposition leader, Dr John Hewson AM, as its new chair. Opposition leader from April 1990 to May 1994 for the Liberal party, Hewson was formerly an economist for the Australian Treasury (Census and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... pass the House of Representatives, where both conservative "Tea Party" Republicans and liberal Democrats expressed opposition to it. Meanwhile, a closely-watched report on US manufacturing added to concerns about the weakness of the world's largest economy. ...

Trade union boss pushes for SG raise

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... Superannuation Guarantee (SG) to 12% and urged delegates to support the measures and demand the same from the Liberal Opposition party. "It is the Opposition that stands in the way. The proposed mining tax will fund the increase in the SG. We need to ...

Deal or no deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... (Democrat) and House Speaker John Boehner (Republican) were nearing a "major budget deal." Hooray! Until it runs into some opposition and then, it's back to no deal. Boo! However -- and I've said this many times before - they will deal. Because as Big ...