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Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Advisers turn budget into opportunity to engage

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
Tech savvy financial planners have turned fears around the 2014/15 federal budget cuts into an opportunity to highlight the value of advice and engage with their clients on social media. The government's warnings before the release of the 2014 budget ...

Budget presents huge opportunity for wealth industry

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
The two year increase in the Age Pension is likely to create a huge opportunity for the financial services industry as product and service providers devise ways to help fund people those additional years, according to Rainmaker Information director ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... early sixties. He spent his first few years in Nigeria, where his British father worked for a company that sold heavy switch gear. But following Nigeria's independence in the early 60s, a civil war ensued that made it too dangerous to remain there, and ...

Australian ETF industry passes $11 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... grow. BetaShares today launched the BetaShares Geared Australian Equity Fund (hedge fund) which trades under the ASX Code "GEAR" and provides investors with a simple way to obtain a cost-effective geared exposure to the returns of the Australian share ...

ASIC should regulate SMSFs as a financial product: PwC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has recommended that individual self-managed super funds (SMSF) should be treated as a financial product regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In a submission to the Financial System Inquiry ...

FPA calls for clear separation of general and personal advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... recommended the government to "follow Cooper's recommendation and undertake a formal review of the decision to allow SMSFs to gear up property in their fund."

Margin lending through advisers shrank in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
Margin lending loans sold through financial advisers shrank in 2013 by 7%, while the broker channel is poised for growth over the next 12 months. The Investment Trends December 2013 Margin Lending Broker Report found that the margin lending industry ...

Hamilton calls for stricter SMSF licensing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... borrowings on the basis of the perceived security of the underlying asset," he said. "One solution for protecting those who gear through super is to control the ability of promoters to spruik property to SMSFs by requiring all parties to a superannuation ...

Challenger Diversified Property Group reports earnings growth

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
Challenger Diversified Property Group has reported normalised earnings of $23.9 million for the six months to 31 December 2013, up from $22.9 million for the same period the previous year. Net profit after tax (statutory) fell to $15.2 million for the ...