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Government explains Challenger annuity mix-up

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Department of Social Services (DSS) has given its reasons for changing the way it assesses Challenger's Care Annuity, saying it had mistakenly been assessing it on the grounds that investors in the annuity could not get their capital back. However ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... drop weighed on both the Nasdaq and the S&P 500. Retailers ranging from shopping giant Wal-Mart (-1.5 per cent) to department store Macy's (-2.7 per cent) and electronics vendor Best Buy (-5.5 per cent) suffered after the National Retail Federation said ...

Register to include qualifications, association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... adviser's qualifications and professional association memberships by March 2015, Treasury has confirmed. A statement by the department confirmed that the register will also include the adviser's name, registration number, status, and experience; the ...

Challenger Care Annuity sales suspended

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... avenues after the government announced it would reassess the social security treatment of investors in the annuity. The Department of Social Services (DSS) informed Challenger that the Care Annuity, which provides a lifetime income to people in need ...

APRA's IT infrastructure strains

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... part of its data retention plans, Treasury is finalising its plans for a public Register of Financial Advisers and the Department of Finance readies the public sector to implement a government-wide cloud computing strategy.

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... data. At 0908 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was unchanged at 5,407. The US Labor Department said weekly applications rose 21,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 313,000, the highest level since the first week of September. ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... confidence. At 0815 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was up six points at 5,356. Commerce Department figures showed that US gross domestic product rose at a 3.9 per cent annualised rate, up from an initial estimate of ...

Inflows from overseas double in four years

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... have recommended to the Financial System Inquiry that a body be established to coordinate the efforts of Treasury, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ASIC and Austrade," Brogden said.

Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... Brothers Investments as senior economist. He has also worked for the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. Based in Edinburgh, Faulkner-MacDonagh will report directly to the head of global strategy Andrew Milligan. Wolf will be ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... National Australia Bank shed six cents to $32.88. Macquarie Group lost $1.35, or 2.2%, to $60.50 after going ex-dividend. Department store Myer lost five cents to $1.85 after revealing a flat set of first quarter sales results. But paint maker DuluxGroup ...