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Don't take our franking credits: Taxpayers Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
Removing dividend imputation will lower returns and favour wealthy overseas investors over local retirees who rely on dividend income and the reduced tax from franking credits, according to Taxpayers Australia. TAL head of superannuation and Taxpayers ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
As a student of economics, I've heard about John Maynard Keynes' 'Paradox of Thrift', David Ricardo's 'Ricardian Equivalence Theory', A Alan Greenspan's 'Interest Rate Conundrum' (which appears to be making a return performance in the US) and of course ...

Dion Global launches new trading platform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
Hartleys Limited has deployed a new trading and order management system that integrates these services into a single platform. The Dion Global Solutions platform known as TradeCentre allows users and brokers to manage the entire trading, order management ...

Wall Street up till it was down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
This is absurd, I thought to myself when I woke up and saw Wall Street on the up and up, punctuated by headlines such as: "Dow Average Approaches Record After GDP, Jobless Claims" (Bloomberg) "Wall Street edges higher, Dow and S&P records a hurdle" ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Ben Bernanke! It was a wow day on Wall Street overnight as our friend Ben reinforced this Ben's view that it would be a win-win for equity markets, no matter how the Fed see its ...

Mandatory FOFA start date confirmed for July 2013

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
The financial services industry has been given another year to implement the FOFA reforms, with the mandatory industry wide start date confirmed as July 1, 2013. Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten announced the proposed FOFA changes will kick ...

UBS: Diversify to prevent fatigue

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
Markets remain turbulent with persistent worries over Europe but the Union will "make up, not break up", according to George Boubouras from UBS. However, investors should remain diversified across all asset classes to protect from "fatigue". George ...

Arrivederci Berlusconi Ciao

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving post prime minister has bitten the dust. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced his resignation a day after posting on Facebook that, "Reports of my resignation are completely unfounded and I don't know ...

Submissions open on excess super contribution cap refund rules

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
Financial advisers and self-managed super fund trustees can have their say on the excess contributions cap reprieve after Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten released a consultation paper yesterday. Under the contributions cap, super fund members under ...

ASX fends rivals with price cuts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Investors are benefiting from the rise of alternative trading platforms in Australia, with the incumbent Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) introducing massive fee cuts starting next month, including a 46 per cent cut on the headline trade execution ...