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Special bond issues could fix unaffordable housing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... housing affordability plan includes a low-risk fixed interest investment bond designed to free up capital that could be directed towards new housing projects. AAH analysis supports their claim that a $90 million investment by government to underwrite ...

SuperIQ acquires Smartsuper

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... content and Internet facilities to the SuperIQ systems," a statement on the Smartsuper website says, with visitors then re-directed to the SuperIQ site. The purchase agreement was finalised at the end of last month.

Brokerage domination chokes competition: Paritech

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... mandated in Australia, Klink says there needs to be a greater effort to ensure administration is better integrated for self directed investors. "Commsec's website has had one upgrade in five years," Klink said. "Why should they spend money when they ...

Super concession cuts ignite SMSF debate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... for the very wealthy," said Fiona Reynolds, AIST chief executive. "There are only so many tax concessions that can be directed towards retirement savings and in our view these concessions should be well targeted and directed to those with lower balances." ...

Lofty A$ supports offshore ETFs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... - should the currency depreciate it will represent a capital gain. Around 20% of iShares' unit registry reflects self-directed investors in the retail market.

Polarisation of super dubbed "shocking" by UK manager

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... engineering or leverage less likely to find appeal. Russell Hogan, director at Dundas Global said that in terms of the self-directed retiree market, annuities are "no magic bullet," although they have a place alongside other income components. Hogan ...

Direct investors prefer scaled advice

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... environment, a desire for flexibility and control and the impact of wide scale adoption of social media. "These self-directed investors present a huge opportunity for the financial services industry, both from a product and advice perspective," Turnbull ...

OneVue names chief executive

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... weeks," she said. Frost said he was particularly excited about joining OneVue as it offered an intuitive platform for self directed investors and great scope to create more opportunities in the advice space. "My role is about supporting choice for investors ...

Cold calling scammer gets 10 year ban

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... August and September in 2011. CIA promoted investments in financial products by cold calling investors who in turn were directed to false financial product information contained on a website," said ASIC. At any time the CIA did not hold an Australian ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... the looks of it, Spain and Italy should be playing against Germany instead. For the Germans want the 'assistance' to be directed to Spain's Fondo de Reestructuracion Ordenada Bancaria (FROB) rescue fund. This means it'll be a bailout not a credit line. ...