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Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Investors can be better protected from the next investment bubble if the government legislate subsidised financial advice and support an insurance scheme that will hedge home-owners against extreme property prices, said Dr. Robert Shiller, the author ...

Parlie inquiry into sales commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Its game on for financial advice in Australia now that Parliament has convened a fast-paced inquiry into the role advisers, commissions and regulatory gaps played in the recent spate of financial services collapses. The Inquiry's wide ranging Terms ...

Clients stung by commissioned advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Australians who pay advisers by commission risk overpaying for services 13 times too much, according to a new report by Rice Warner Actuaries. Financial advisers who received commissions could earn up to 13 times more than those who were remunerated ...

Baracking for the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
"While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this, we will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger ...

Advisers turn to unlisted property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... "one-in-20 year opportunity" with high commercial property yields, very low interest rates, and commercial buildings for sale at half replacement costs.

Capital protected products gain popularity

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
An increasing number of fund managers are introducing capital protection to their products, with one of the early providers enjoying a 50 per cent spike in new applications month-on-month. One good example is AXA's North capital protection product - ...

ASIC catches short sale bungle

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... mining shares he did not own. ASIC alleges the firm's sole director Daniel Droga, on behalf of Droga Capital, entered a short sale on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) for one million Finders Mines shares on 28 February this year. The sell order ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market was lower at noon on Friday, pulled back by weakness in the banking sector following a negative lead from United States markets overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was off 51.2 points, or 1.48 per cent ...

Wide Bay tags Aviva insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Regional banking group Wide Bay Australia has teamed up with Aviva to offer life insurance to its clients. The new insurance, called 'Widecover LiFE' will be distributed throughout Wide Bay's 45 branches across regional Queensland from Cairns to the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
The Australian share market again has received mixed leads from overseas overnight, with Wall Street indices down, precious metals lower, but copper and oil both were higher. At 0722 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was ...