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Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... the rest of the 16 other members to agree. Reports that the finance ministers of Germany and France agreed to keep Greece inside the euro also provided positive fodder. "We agreed that we have to do everything to keep Greece in the euro club." Heard ...

ASIC moves on insider trading

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
Insider trading and market manipulation charges are on the rise, according to ASIC, which gets 200 trade surveillance alerts indicating unusual trading activity each day. Deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Belinda ...

Instreet launches new structured product

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... clients and have provided consistently higher returns. Lucas said investors are increasingly using structured products inside SMSFs. "The risk for this product is potential exposure to downward price movement of the lowest performing share from the basket ...

APLs a potential minefield under FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... interest, the real discussion should be around conflicted remuneration. "The question is how this will be enforced internally inside vertically integrated groups," said Lucas. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is reportedly already ...

ASIC strikes against currency trader

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched strike-off action against Brisbane-based TRADERS SERVICES, formerly known as Your Trading Room. While the current strike-off action relates to unpaid licence fees, reports allege that ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... call. It's an even split right down the middle. Apart from being seen as a very brave soul in trying to predict what's inside the heads of the RBA Board members, punters won't want to be caught with their pants down one more time and look silly in front ...

FOFA passing causes industry division

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... Coalition has renewed its pledge to remove opt-in, improve Best Interest Duty and refine the commissions ban on risk insurance inside superannuation among others if it is elected.

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
There seems to be a sense of calm in the financial markets these days. An eerie calm that makes one wonder what lies inside investors' heads. And usually times like these - times when the market is consolidating - they suggest that the market may have ...

Co-contrib changes need advice strategy update

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... Financial Standard that many adviser clients use the current co-contribution scheme to pay for their insurance premiums inside super. "This reduces funding into this initiative and pushed into a refund contributions tax for low income earners. Co-contributions ...

Advisers urged to keep up pressure on FOFA change

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... clause, improving the drafting of the best interests duty, and to further refine the ban of commissions on risk insurance inside super. Life insurance specialist Asteron Life is also urging advisers to continue lobbying local MPs over their concerns ...