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ASIC could implement immediate suspension of advisers

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) could implement the immediate suspension of "bad-apple" advisers if it had powers to do it. ASIC senior leaders were asked about this issue during yesterday's public hearing of the Senate Economics Reference ...

Credit to escape impending bond rout

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... investment officer Alexander Friedman. With interest rates at record lows across virtually all of world's major economic powers, the only direction for interest rates now is up. The prospect of the resultant negative returns has caused a flight from ...

New ATO powers to decrease SMSF 'delinquency'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Plans to increase the power of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to penalise self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) on a sliding scale will provide a more nuanced way of penalising 'delinquent trustees', according to Superannuation Australia's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... closed little changed as investors weigh a weak US housing market report and a breakthrough deal between Iran and major powers over its controversial nuclear program. At the closing bell on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 12.84 points ...

Bad estate planning advice is getting clients in trouble

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... seen enough, they'll know that they contain certain things. A good financial planner actually keeps track of wills and powers of attorneys and they'll talk to the clients about it." He reminded advisers that "dying without a will is an enormous problem ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... till the US debt hits the ceiling. So what else is new? True to form...and recent history, it looks like the political powers in Washington will again take it to the limit. US President Obama must be wishing he was Chinese Premier Li Kequiang instead ...

The budget and the ceiling - never again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013

ASIC, "twin peaks" model faces review

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... Don Nguyen and more than three years to act on Ricky Gillespie," Williams said. "We need to ask if they have sufficient powers and if they are resourced enough." Economist and former Liberal Party leader John Hewson welcomed the incoming government's ...

Super likely to fall under Treasury

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... deflation" and a move away from the Labor initiative to give superannuation and financial services its own portfolio. The exact powers of each portfolio are expected to be specified tomorrow, when the cabinet swears in and the new government releases ...

Hockey to head Treasury and Cormann Finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013