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SIFMA talks up Wall Street cyber defences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
The US Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has released its assessment report of their Wall Street cyber attack simulation and while it confirms their protocols performed adequately, it was the soft attack weapons that were ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on international markets as investors interpret US jobs figures as meaning the Federal Reserve will continue its stimulus measures. At 0817 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index ...

Magellan insists huge growth won't hamper returns

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Magellan Financial Group insists its investment process remains scalable in spite of an $11 billion rise in assets under management and a three and half fold increase in underlying profit in the last 12 months. At the company's recent annual general ...

Shorten gives Ripoll shadow superannuation portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has appointed Bernie Ripoll Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. The appointment sees the portfolio returned to a shadow ministerial level after Kevin Rudd put it under the umbrella of Treasury. This ...

FPA confronts advisers with their worst nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has confronted advisers at the annual Conference with the case of a young disabled woman who took $800,000 to a financial planner and lost it all due to bad advice. The client became disabled after a car accident ...

Grandfathering pushes self-licensing

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
Uncertainty around the grandfathering provision of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulations has made a self-license more appealing for advisers looking to leave their dealer group. "Lots of licensees have restrictions in place that might not ...

Hockey Review to push for industry deregulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
The Government's Financial System Inquiry will undertake "a general health check" on the industry aimed at removing regulation, Treasurer Joe Hockey said. Speaking at the American Australian Association in New York, Hockey said that the inquiry will ...

Platinum offers $15,000 financial planning scholarship

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
Platinum Asset Management, together with the Neilson Foundation, has launched a new scholarship for financial planning undergraduates, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced. The scholarships will be offered through five Australian universities ...

Philanthropic trust awards $2m biomedical research grants

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
The Ramaciotti Foundations, a philanthropic trust managed by Perpetual, last night announced the recipients of the annual Ramaciotti Awards for biomedical research. The main award of $1 million went to the Centenary Institute's Cytometry research program ...

Market Vectors lists first Aussie banking ETF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
Market Vectors ETFs has listed four new Australian exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), including the first Australian banking and small cap resources ETFs. The listing brings the total number of exchange traded ...