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Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
By itself the latest update on US inflation shouldn't impede the Fed's path towards policy normalisation. The December numbers are neither here nor there - i.e., it justifies whatever the market's pre-conceived view - four 25 bps hike this year as indicated ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Where have all the buyers gone? Two weeks into the new year and they're still MIA. Given recent events, they appear to be drowning - drowning in a sea of oil, that is....and there'll be more gushing out of the grounds soon, out of Iran as Friday's speculations ...

Adviser standards need a tidy

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) believes it is not clear how proposed education and training requirements for financial advisers would apply to robo-advice. ASFA says if financial advice was to be provided online (robo-advice) ...

PwC appoints SMSF specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
A growing number of PwC clients moving in to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) has led to a new appointment at the professional services firm. Recently joining as director of PwC Private Clients is Liz Westover. She is expected to bolster PwC's ...

No change to super tax subsidy measure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
Superannuation lobby groups have failed to convince a parliamentary inquiry that the Tax Expenditures Statement misrepresents the cost of superannuation subsidies. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue has just issued its ...

Tim Steele departs AMP

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... Genesys is ongoing, and in August, the company appointed Tim Mitchell-Adams as the new managing director for the ipac and Charter licensees. At the time, AMP group executive advice and banking Rob Caprioli said that Mitchell-Adams "is an excellent leader ...

Australian Ethical joins animal welfare initiative

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... food producers, food retailers and the investors who fund them." The move aligns with Australian Ethical's investment charter, which focuses on animal welfare in two of 23 positive and negative screening elements. The food production industry is considered ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said the regulator has a significant number of individual surveillances underway at the big four banks, Macquarie and AMP. Speaking at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) ...

Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... welfare, conservation, women's empowerment, renewable energy, addressing homelessness and alleviating poverty. "Our company Charter isn't simply a guide for screening investments - it is the basis of our company culture," managing director Phil Vernon ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Like the energizer bunny, China keeps on going and going... and going. Certainly, concerns are mounting over the Middle Kingdom's slowing economy in recent months but even the IMF, in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- released 6 October -- ...