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FSU secretary and executive reach impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
Finance Sector Union (FSU) national secretary Fiona Jordan is expected to know more about her future today after making seething comments on the union's executive earlier this week. The FSU's national executive is reported to be meeting today and is ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...

H&R Block launches SMSF set-up service

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
H&R Block, Australia's largest firm of tax accountants, has established a service for self-directed investors to set-up and manage their own funds. H&R Block SMSF Solutions helps ordinary Australians through the whole SMSF process from set-up to tax ...

ASIC to foster fintech growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has established a Digital Finance Advisory Committee (DFAC) that will meet for the first time next month and advise the regulator on engagement with fintech businesses. DFAC forms one part ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on US and European markets following disappointing US home sales and China factory output data. At 0750 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was down 49 points at ...

Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Advisers may have to recalibrate 'safe' retirement income portfolios in a world of low interest rates - and that may mean blending equity, real and fixed income. That's because when you consider the five-year rate on a typical annuity or term deposit ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after Wall Street stocks rose one per cent overnight. At 0704 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 39 points at 5,505. The Nasdaq has powered to a fresh record, easily ...

Greens strike pension test deal with coalition

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... government passes about $2.4 billion in savings over four years with changes to the pension asset test. Labor has attempted to block the deal. Federal government Social Services Minister, Scott Morrison, told Fairfax Media the changes would see more ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
"There's talk on the street; it sounds so familiar Great expectations, everybody's watching you... Everybody's talking 'bout the new kid in town." - Eagles Well, not quite yet Virginia but, if recent reports are confirmed there'll be a new kid in the ...

Super funds on path to becoming trading pros

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... because of the anonymity and the liquidity aggregation capabilities of the trading platform." "There is increased interest in block liquidity because of the declining volumes in the continuous market."