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Diversified pension policy is best: OECD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
National pension policy is a balancing act between adequacy and sustainability, a balancing act that G20 countries are finding increasingly difficult to maintain, reveals a major OECD report. Restoring this balance is forcing countries to adopt policies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Tuesday after Wall Street closed flat overnight while European and Asian markets generally were higher. Oil and metals rose. On the ASX 24 at 0717 AEST, the June share price index futures contract ...

Timbercorp trio face the music

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Failed agribusiness Timbercorp's former directors must today face a class-action suit filed against them in 2009 by more than 2000 investors in the Supreme Court. The investors have made allegations of conflicts of interest, breaches of directors' duties ...

Telstra Super launches retirement campaign

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Telstra Super has stepped up its online education campaign, launching a raft of new products for members, including its 'Road to Retirement' tool. The animated Road to Retirement feature takes users on a journey, outlining what steps they will need ...

Don't blame China for inflation: AllianceBernstein

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Lay off China when it comes to global inflationary pressures was a central theme at the AllianceBernstein symposium where clients and industry heads gathered to discuss the changing face of global investing. Discussing the impact of emerging markets ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
The Australian share market was half a per cent weaker at noon, while still heading for a gain for the week, after a pull back in commodity prices weighed on the resources sector. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 24.8 points, or ...

Planners risk trouble opposing FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Financial planners are shooting themselves in the foot by seeking to sink key elements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the Industry Super Fund Network has said. Industry Super Fund Network chief executive David Whiteley said the financial ...

Burned investors drink bitter cup: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Investors who suffer financial losses thanks to misconduct often don't know how to seek redress and recover only a few cents on the dollar if at all according to new research from finance industry regulator ASIC. The organisation studied the social ...

Infocus names new head of compliance

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Infocus Money Management has appointed its own head of professional standards and compliance, Lyn Dixon, to support its 75 planning offices. Dixon, formerly manager of compliance and professional standards at ING Australia's Tandem Financial Advice ...

Planners wrapped with super app

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Financial planners are responding in force to a free superannuation and retirement app available at itunes, with the promise of more features to come. The "working retirement calculator" app, developed by Rice Warner, is part of a suite of superannuation ...