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Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Ho-hum. It's now so predictable that it's become so triple ho-hum boring. Yes folks, "Chumbawamba" still rules on Wall Street - it gets knocked down but it gets up again, nothing's ever going to keep it down. Only yesterday, I listed the list of crises ...

Claims against advice arm have no factual basis: Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
Macquarie Group has denied recent media reports claiming its advisers cheated on competency tests and exposed clients to high-risk investments, saying that it would refer the matter to the Australian Press Council (APC). In a statement on its website ...

Future Fund posts 13.9 pct return

STAFF WRITER WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
The Future Fund, the sovereign fund set up to pay future commonwealth public servant superannuation liabilities has topped $100 billion and declared its long term investment returns. The Future Fund's provisional results for the 2013-14 financial year ...

ASIC announces National Financial Literacy Strategy

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released its National Financial Literacy Strategy 2014-2017, which is aimed at helping Australians become more financially secure. Over the past 12 months, ASIC has compiled the key priorities ...

FEATURE: Guiding the way to aged care

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
The new aged care reforms have brought in revised rules and more complex scenarios. Against this backdrop advisers will become even more necessary, particularly as more Australians consider their and their families' aged care needs, Laura Millan writes. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
The Australian share market is slightly lower, as investors digest the impact of Argentina's debt default and US and European Union sanctions against Russia. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the market was relatively quiet as it tried to balance ...

ASIC to renew focus on misleading advertising

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has listed advertising of financial products as one of the current and future areas of focus in its latest enforcement report. The regulator has achieved 256 enforcement outcomes in the six ...

Mercer appoints two independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Mercer has appointed three new directors to its Australian entity boards, including two new independent non-executive directors. Melissa Babbage will join the Mercer Investments (Australia) Limited (MIAL) board, while Jan Swinhoe will join both the ...

AFA unveils main principles of code of conduct

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will prioritise the completion of the organisation's code of conduct after revealing the foundation principles of the document this morning at a roadshow in Sydney. The AFA expected to complete the code of ...

Fitzpatricks hires former CFSGAM head of marketing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Fitzpatricks Financial Group has made two senior appointments in response to a growth in advisers and funds under advice. Former Colonial First State Global Asset Management head of marketing Colin Bold will head up the firm's marketing operations ...