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Planner numbers drop on FoFA changes

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
Overall numbers of financial planners have dropped by 2% from a 2012 high point of 18,545 in 2012 according to recent Rainmaker research. According to the research there are currently 18,096 planners in Australia, with a loss of 450 from 2012. "On the ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... in the US dollar, if it persists, would also put downward pressure on inflation. Having said all these, I still defer to my big namesake, Big Ben Bernanke. He'll sort these out when he speaks before the Bard College at Simon's Rock Commencement, Great ...

Austerity can be hazardous to your health

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Family office 3rd generation more engaged with investments

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... of a cycle here," she said. Wheatley also said that due to the complexity of the Australian taxation system, Cambooya has a big accounting division. Family offices in other countries don't need to have such a strong focus on accountancy but we do, she ...

Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... decide which ones to keep and which ones to throw back at Swannie. The financial markets certainly think that way. It was a big yawn from them. The S&P/ASX 200 index futures is trading 30 points higher at the time I'm punching away at my keyboard. This ...

IM focus at slimmed down Russell

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... have departed, sometimes involuntarily but at other times we've been able to take advantage of voluntary departures. With any big organisation, those departures are going to make headlines." A recent Russell restructure saw the departure of a number ...

Will stocks follow Fed exit to the exits?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
It's not easy to keep on climbing for three weeks straight, or for seven of the past eight days without resting and taking in the view from the top you know. That's why Wall Streeter's could be forgiven for taking a breather last night but...in this ...

No middle ground post-FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... director Michael Heine added that "dealer groups are going through a major change, as an adviser, you either have to be very big or very small and being in the middle ground is going to be very hard." Heine explained that regulatory requirements demand ...

Govt sharpens knife with Swiss tax treaty

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
The government is set an updated tax treaty with Switzerland for the first time since 1980. Federal Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury said the revised treaty would "strengthen administrative assistance between Australian and Swiss revenue authorities ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... that be necessary to support demand" that did it? Was it the Druckenmiller/Soros effect? They bet against the A$ versus the big one with Druckenmiller -- known to have made a cool US$1 billion for George Soros in 1992 when he bet against the pound - ...