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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases producer price indices for September, and the Housing Industry Association issues new home sales figures, also for September. In equities news, Skilled Group Ltd and Tabcorp Holdings Ltd hold annual ...

Best financial advice tweet wins iPhone

... iPhone and the bragging rights of saying something profound (or witty) in less than 140 characters. This year, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is set to run its first ever Twitter-friendly conference, where delegates are invited to share ...

AIOFP appoints directors

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Dennis Maddern and John Ardino have been appointed as new directors of the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) board. Maddern is president of Melbourne-based Maddern Financial Advisers and Ardino is the managing director of ...

Planners urged to address ethics

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... ethics and honesty scale among Australians who don't seek advice, said the AFA. Jim Taggart, national president of the Association of Financial Advisers, quotes the industry body's Back to Basics research that show Australians who use advisers highly ...

NTAA challenge planners to cut fees

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... with clients are necessary to improve the credibility of the financial planning industry, according to a planning association. A newly established financial planning association yesterday said that the financial planning industry needs to review its ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... the banking sector there," IG Markets market analyst Cameron Peacock said from Melbourne. "There might be a guilt by association almost for our financials even though these issues are US centric. "They always tend to drag our banks lower." The major ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... Sounds new. But underneath this all is the fact that the US housing market remains in trouble. Whether the US National Association of Attorneys General finds that home lenders falsified documents and signatures - or not - to justify foreclosing on American ...

Super funds call for new fee paradigm

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... model based on the volatility of the portfolio and its benchmark," said Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST. The association also recommends the development of a fee disclosure accounting standard, and the publication by APRA of more consistent and ...

ANZ boosts super contribs for female staff

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... existing parental leave entitlements of 13 weeks super and full pay. Previously the Investment and Financial Services Association asked for superannuation to be included in any parental paid leave scheme after figures from Rice Warner Actuaries found ...

PAS supports Paceline

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. In August the Financial Planning Association held a charity golf day for the Rural Fire Service and the Future2 Foundation while AIST and Women in Super were the silver ...