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AML to redefine dealings with currency clients

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
The looming anti-money laundering (AML) legislation will redefine how service providers deal with clients and their currency transactions and planning for how they should implement the new provisions needs to begin now. The most profound impact will ...

Goldman Sachs to buy insurer USI for $1.8bn

The private equity arm of Goldman Sachs & Co has made a play for USI Holdings, the tenth largest insurance broker in the US, in a merger deal worth just under $1.8 billion (US$1.4 billion). Under the proposed merger, USI shareholders will each receive ...

NSW bankruptcies reach record highs

The latest quarterly figures from the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia (ITSA) have shown record levels of bankruptcies in NSW with accountancy specialist Hall Chadwick warning "more bumps" are ahead. Compared to an already high 1,900 bankruptcies ...

More growth through structured products and MAs

Structured products and managed or wrap accounts are the next cornerstones of the global investment funds sector, according to an on-the-spot poll of fund managers and other industry participants at the SIBOS conference held this week. The majority ...

It's time to work together: MDRT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
At nearly 80 years of age, the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) is still leading the charge for international best practice in financial advice and, excited by what it sees in Australia, it is urging advisers and associations to work together to continue ...

Thou shalt inherit an empty piggy bank

It's not just the hyena laugh or the eye twitch. A new study has found that parents tend to pass their bad money habits to their children too. A survey of 1,125 Australians conducted by a company that makes money box containers, Money Ed Box, has found ...

Boomer Budget bonanza

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2006
The 11th Costello Budget, drawing almost universal praise from the superannuation industry, is tailor made to boost savings from lackluster boomers while its red tape reductions should see advisers get back to actually being advisers. "ASFA's calls ...

Regulatory reform next on the agenda: Treasury

In a speech to the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners conference, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce said the key issues for the industry and the Government in the short term were revising the regulatory environment ...

INVESCO opens the new Japan to retail investors

Japanese economic and investment conditions have well and truly turned the corner and the time for retail investors to gain exposure has arrived, according to INVESCO. Chief investment officer for the INVESCO Japan team, Atsushi Kawakami, explained ...

Industry and retail fund bickering needs to stop: Planners

The consensus among planners who attended the van Eyk conference in Sydney this week was clear: industry and retail funds need to stop bickering and instead serve consumers as a homogeneous front. On the same day that IFSA released research revealing ...