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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street finishing robustly, although commodities markets were mixed. On the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 26 points higher at 4,941 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Indicators are strong for the last day of local trading before the five-day Easter break, with robust, positive leads from trading offshore overnight in securities and commodities. At 0715 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract ...

Ansett trustees make a move

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Super trustees for failed airline Ansett will finally issue an interim distribution statement to members of the Ansett Residual Superannuation Fund, some ten years after the collapse of the company. In the next six to eight weeks, up to 11,000 ex-Ansett ...

Advisers fear super fund competition

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Financial planners are worried that low-cost advice from superannuation funds will hurt their businesses in the future and say it is unfair competition as the fees are hidden. At a recent Financial Planners Association luncheon in Sydney, advisers made ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is heading to Canberra to lobby the Federal Government over capital gains tax relief, association chief Pauline Vamos told a packed Sydney luncheon yesterday. The organisation wants continued tax ...

Planners needle minister over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten fielded prickly questions from financial planners after giving a speech on the Future of Financial Advice reforms at a luncheon gathering yesterday. Minister Shorten told the Financial Planning Association (FPA) ...

FPA calls for naming rights

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
The Financial Planning Association has asked Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten to restrict the term 'Financial Planner' to members of an approved professional association only - and he has agreed to take it on board. The Association (FPA) has ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
True to form, the dip buyers came a-buying yesterday's dip. But there's something strange - really, really strange about last night's financial market action on Wall Street. The US stock market is up a little overnight because oil prices rebounded. ...

$55 million for Trio super fraud victims

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
Victims of the Trio Capital superannuation fund fraud will receive $55 million in compensation from a special levy, the Federal Government announced today. Members of four super funds formerly under the trusteeship of Trio will recover all lost funds ...

Extra year for tax related overhauls

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
The federal government has granted an extra year to both Managed Investment Trusts (MITs) and financial planners providing tax advice to come to terms with new legislation. Bill Shorten, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services and superannuation ...