Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 4391 - 4400 of 4761 results for "July 2014"

Super choice information overload

ASFA celebrated Valentine's Day this year with the message that super choice has been a non-event that has lead to information overload. This is despite ASFA's own research revealing that already nearly one in 10 fund members are likely to exercise ...

ARF and STA to merge into $18bn fund

After year-long discussions, industry fund super heavyweights ARF and STA are set to confirm that their merger is going ahead, creating a new fund with over one million members and more than $18 billion in assets under management. An announcement was ...

Twice as many super funds now offering planning advice

New figures released by Rainmaker reveal that the number of superannuation funds offering financial planning to members has doubled over three years, with more industry funds set to take it up. Figures from Rainmaker's new online super fund comparison ...

Bravura momentum rolls on with Essential

Bravura Solutions Limited (Bravura) has added to recent acquisitions by buying a computer systems specialist, Essential Computer Systems (Essential), to drive their online superannuation and adviser support business systems. The purchase of Essential ...

Exchange traded funds to surge

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are big in the US but have barely made a ripple in the local market and fund manager INVESCO wants that to change. INVESCO's UK parent AMVESCAP has just signed a deal to buy PowerShares, the fastest growing ETF provider ...

Companies make smooth IFRS transition: ASIC

Australian companies have made a smooth transition to the Australian equivalent to IFRS, according to an ASIC review into the implementation of the new reporting standards. Jeffrey Lucy, chairman of ASIC, released ASIC's findings. "Transition to AIFRS ...

Daily economic update

The slowdown in the Australian property market continues. According to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) the total value of dwelling finance commitments -- excluding alterations and additions -- fell by 0.4 per cent ...

ABS christmas gift: free statisics for one and all

The Australian Bureau of Statistics will no longer charge for statistics, provided users access the website and obtain electronic versions. The announcement about the new deal was made recently by the Treasurer Peter Costello when marking recent 100th ...

Daily Economic Update

Today's report indicating weakness in the Australian housing market reinforces our expectations for steady interest rates. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the total number of dwelling commencements dropped by 5 per cent in the September ...

Machiavellian Macville gets prison term

A former financial planner and adviser from Queensland was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment after being found guilty of six fraud charges. Robert Pierre Macville funnelled client funds of around $470,000 into his own private company Macville ...