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Industry asks for stronger consultation after elections

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... the political campaign and said that the ICAA has put together a policy platform that compares the economic plans of the major political parties and includes recommendations such as including financial literacy in the school curriculum or lowering the ...

NTAA keen to establish referral relations with advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
The National Tax Accountants Association (NTAA) said that the majority of its members want to continue to provide advice to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF), and added that they are keen on establishing referral relations with financial planners. ...

Don't lump Asia Pacific in with EM fall

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... recent months. While Hepner points to high levels of corporate debt in China and current account weakness outside of the major resource rich nations as structural headwinds in the region, he said the likes of Taiwan, Myanmar, Korea, Philippines and Thailand ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... business expectations survey. Meanwhile, the TD Securities/Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for July also is due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday hit its highest point in more than two months as good signs ...

Most planners are aligned, consumers think otherwise

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... institutionally-owned. A Roy Morgan research found that consumers are confused when the planner is branded differently to the major fund manager that owns the planning group. As many as 51% of the clients using Financial Wisdom (owned by the Commonwealth ...

Women need 7% more super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
Women's superannuation contribution rates would need to be 7% higher than men's in order to achieve gender equality, a study has found. Research by Michael E Drew and Anup K Basu, entitled 'The Case for Gender-Sensitive Superannuation Plan Design' ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... the producer price index for June quarter and the overseas arrivals and departures figures, also for the June quarter. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Thursday edged higher despite the negative impact of speculation banks ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... rock the boat," he said. "I think that's certainly given a bit of reassurance." He said investors were unlikely to make any major trades ahead of the release of important Chinese manufacturing data later on Thursday. The big four banks were mixed, with ...

Regulator taking a "facilitative" approach to change

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... APRA too would be focused on supervision and seeing how the financial services industry was meeting the new requirements. "Major reforms are completed from a policy perspective and we are now in the implementation phase. APRA doesn't underestimate how ...

Labor pledges five-year freeze on super tax

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... Australians in relation to their retirement savings provision. The draft, entitled 'Fewer Changes, Better Outcomes,' supports no major taxation changes to superannuation and the government's proposal to legislate the charter into law. "From now on there ...