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S&P calls for adviser education on new ETF indices

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
Adviser education on the indices underlying new fixed income exchange traded funds is needed to undo damage caused by misinformation on ETFs, according to S&P Indices. Recent changes to the Australian Securities Exchange Aqua listing rules to cover ...

ASIC brings criminal charges against SMSF adviser

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
A New South Wales SMSF adviser has appeared in court, charged with obtaining money by deception and of making a false or misleading statement to ASIC. The investigation into Craig Gerard Dangar relates to his time as an adviser at SMSF Consultants in ...

ASIC to take hard line on deliberately misleading ads

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
ASIC is set to clamp down on misleading advertisments for financial products and services as part of its continued shake up of the financial services system. New guidelines released by ASIC commissioner Peter Kell emphasised the need for promoters to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open lower after further doubt were raised regarding Greece's bailout package and its ability to avoid default, and Moody's ratings cut on six European nations due to the euro zone crisis. At 0817 AEDT on ...

Super tax subsidies don't favour the rich: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Mercer has released a research paper that dismisses claims retirement income funding through superannuation tax concessions favours the wealthy. The paper 'Tax, Super & the Age pension" reported that the total cost of retirement funding per person in ...

Margin lending suffers from adviser misconception

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Investment Trends December 2011 Margin Lending Financial Planner Report has revealed 83% of respondents named market conditions as the biggest barrier to margin lending among financial planners. Volatility levels attracted 49% of the vote with higher ...

The martyrdom of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Hero! Legend! Happy Valentine's Day Greece. I heart you Greece. There's no two ways about it, financial markets responded with a warm, fuzzy feeling (in their pockets) to the Greek Parliament's V-day present - approval of the latest austerity package ...

Instos face debate on EM strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
Institutional investors are facing divided opinion on the merit of an integrated versus a siloed asset strategy to emerging market exposure. While return potentials in emerging markets are high, the volatility of those returns and greater downside risk ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
There's a certain kind of hush all over the world overnight as financial markets turned their attention back to the Greeks and their seemingly never-ending negotiations with their benefactors - the IMF, the EU, the ECB... and private creditors. Ahhh ...

Colley departs OnePath for SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
OnePath's head of technical sales strategy Andrew Lowe will cover the position of national technical manager Graeme Colley following his departure, the company has told Financial Standard. Colley is leaving OnePath after more than 10 years to take up ...