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FoFA opt-in to cause advisers biggest headache

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... It throws a big cloud on valuations." David Rae of DPR Accountants and Advisers meanwhile said events in Parliament last night were dramatic, but in practice little would change. "From a financial planning perspective, for someone like myself, I don't ...

Original FoFA laws take immediate effect

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... original Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) laws from today, after the Senate voted to disallow the government's amendments last night. The reversion to the original legislation took effect as soon as the amendments, which were made by a disallowable ...

Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... government will continue with its quest to push through amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms despite last night's crushing defeat in the Senate. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told ABC Radio this morning that the government had ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... the minutes of the Fed's 28-29 October FOMC meeting that, according to headlines, dominated financial market activity last night. Eureka! Rationale for the Dow's 0.01% drop and the S&P 500's 0.15% plunged overnight found. Oh pa-lease. Plain lazy. Can't ...

Liam Shorte named FS Smileys Scholar of the Year

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... I was to be honest gobsmacked to win," Shorte said after his win. The prizes were presented at a ceremony in Sydney last night and while Shorte said that his approach to social media was a "slow burn," he now sees it as his best source of new client ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... Governor Mark Carney delivered at his opening remarks following the release of the BOE's Quarterly Inflation Report last night. But of course, being the astute central banker that he is (yes, I'm a Carney groupie now), he said it more eloquently... even ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... rise of 39.4 per cent in the year to September 30. US stocks set fresh records for the fifth straight session on Tuesday night, but just barely, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by a mere 0.01 per cent and the broad-market Standard & Poor's ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... prices plummeted 22.3% to US$86.66 a barrel from their 2014 open and WTI oil dropped 16.4% to US$82.25 per barrel. Last night, oil slid some more - Brent's down to US$82.70 and WTI's trading at US$77.16, down 28.1% and 27.8% this year to date, respectively. ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
Perhaps they cheated and have had a little peep at the data, but last night's advance estimate of US third quarter real GDP growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
The suspense is chillingly killing... you could almost taste it by just looking at Wall Street's performance last night. It was decidedly undecided. Two ups and two downs. The Dow and the Nasdaq both finished 0.1% on the up while the S&P 500 and the ...