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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... conducts an auction of $500 million in the line of August 2010 bonds, and the Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association release their performance of construction index (PCI) for March. In equities news, Athena Resources Ltd and Jupiter Energy ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
A UK pension fund association that represents more than $1 trillion has put the world's fund managers on notice and demanded they take their role as shareholders far more seriously. Lindsay Tomlinson, chair at the National Association of Pension Funds ...

Advisers to gain political insight

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... perspective on financial services and the planning industry on 18 May also in Sydney. Richard Klipin, chief executive at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), said it's important that advisers hear the policy positions from both major political ...

UK bans commission payments from products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... have real confidence and trust in the advice they are receiving," she said. Richard Klipin, chief executive at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), said the ruling is similar to what FSR promoted - unbundle the advice and strategy from the product ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
IFSA has dismissed the APRA 'whole of fund' return on assets metrics as misleading, confusing and irrelevant for most members. "IFSA has rejected the APRA superannuation fund data... and its use in superannuation comparisons," they said in a statement. ...

Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... critical intermediaries in the market evade regulation." Lastly Greg Smith, general counsel, Public Employees' Retirement Association of Colorado, said "remember where investments come from... every penny lost in the financial crisis hurt a family."

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... revived the debate on insurance fees and prompted two other industry bodies to have their say. The Financial Planning Association yesterday called for commission payments for risk products to continue despite agreeing last year that commissions on superannuation ...

Commission on risk products should continue: FPA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called for commission payments for risk products to continue, citing fee-for-advice payments on risk products could make life insurance too expensive for clients. According to a press statement, the FPA Board ...

Hands off SMSFs, warns assoc

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
It's war. The Australian Investors Association (AIA), which claims to represent 2,000 self managed super fund investors, has told the government to keep its hands off the sector and forget about trying to impose any new compliance requirements. "SMSFs ...

IFSA calls for super in parental leave

IFSA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA) is calling on the government to include superannuation in any parental paid leave scheme after research found Australian mothers typically accumulate much less retirement savings than men. Research ...