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Global equities tease income opportunity

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
Global equity income strategies, once only available to institutional investors, are now easily accessible using cost-effective ETF products as building blocks of an income portfolio. This a view presented by SPDR ETFs in a white paper released by State ...

ASIC reduces ban on director of fabricated fund

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has approved an agreement between ASIC and Queensland man, Paul Duncan, to reduce his ban from providing financial services from four years to three. ASIC originally banned Duncan from providing financial services ...

Combined Insurance to cease new Australian business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
Combined Insurance has announced it will cease writing new Australian business on April 22. The insurer said that the decision will not impact existing policies and followed a "detailed review of the company's business operations and growth prospects." ...

Men more confident than women in managing SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
Although women account for 47% of SMSF trustees, they are less confident than men in managing their fund (83% to 62%), according to new research report produced by Commonwealth Bank and the SMSF Association. Released ahead of the SMSF Association's ...

ASIC bans former Macquarie adviser for market manipulation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
ASIC has banned a former Macquarie Equities accredited derivatives adviser for market manipulation. Working with a former Credit Suisse employee, Tony Davidof manipulated the price of MINI derivatives via sequential buy and sell trades after both pre-arranging ...

iSelect nixes Providence takeover bid

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
Life insurance broker iSelect has announced that buyout discussions with Providence Equity Partners will now cease. The iSelect board announced the original proposal in October, but has now said that despite it being "in the best interests of iSelect ...

Pepared for "lift-off" watch out for "ceasing"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
'Twas the month before lift-off, when all through Wall Street not a creature was stirring, they do not weep." My apologies to Clement Clarke Moore for butchering his immortal poem but I find his words fitting - with a few adjustments - during this time ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The head of a large Australian superannuation fund once complained that a young employee at AAS didn't know anything about the super industry. Little did they know almost a decade later that same employee would be chief executive at AvSuper. Darren ...

ASIC bans former risk adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
ASIC has banned a life insurance adviser from former Macquarie Group subsidiary Risk Advice Specialists. Risk Advice Specialists, which described itself as "100% backed by Macquarie," was a boutique risk-focused dealer group established in 2012. It ...

IOOF advice firm jumps ship to Fitzpatricks

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
An advice firm licensed under IOOF-owned Lonsdale has changed dealer groups and moved to non-aligned Fitzpatricks Private Wealth. Hobart-based Main Street Financial Solutions is licensed under Fitzpatricks starting July 1, 2015, principal Charles Badenach ...