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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... 5,527. Wall Street stocks have finished mostly higher as US Federal Reserve minutes showed rising debate over recent improvements in the jobs market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 59.54 points (0.35 per cent) to 16,979.13. The broad-based S&P ...

ASX agrees to changes after ASIC review

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... cause ASIC to qualify the conclusion that ASX adequately met its obligations for the assessment period. ASX will make improvements to its processes and procedures around the operation of the ASX 24 futures market, considering listing applications from ...

Two property funds announce significant acquisitions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... general hospital complex. It was originally constructed in 1978 and comprises a number of ancillary buildings and site improvements. HPT will refurbish and extend the hospital during the early years of ownership. The property purchase will be funded ...

UK annuities policy dubbed 'political schizophrenia'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... annuitisation policy, in Australia the issue is squarely on the agenda. The FSI interim report has put forward four possible improvements to the currently under-regulated retirement phase. One of these was compulsory annuitisation. The other three were ...

Planners in urgent need of better tech: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
Financial advisers believe there is still room for technological improvements that would assist them in running their business more efficiently, an Investment Trends report found. Planners could benefit from better technology across the board, from ...

Intra-fund advice exemptions in doubt

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... our changes is remove unnecessary and costly red tape, which is pushing up the cost of advice without proportionate improvements in consumer protections and deal with some of the unintended consequences of Labor's changes where that is necessary to maintain ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... negative note, but Morgan's senior private client adviser Bill Chatterton said local investors remained upbeat. He said improvements in the US, where another fall in the unemployment rate last week helped push the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 17,000 ...

Senate inquiry reccommends Royal Commission into CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... changes The inquiry conducted a thorough review of the regulator's duties and recommended a range of changes and improvements, including its website, governance and internal structure. The report recommended a review of the ASIC Act 2001 in two years ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... Chicago Fed's National Activity Index that went from minus 0.15 in April to plus 0.21 in May.... and get this, these improvements are happening at the same time that Aunt Janet Yellenhas been taking away US$10 billion a month for the yankee-doodle-dandys ...

Government to pass most FoFA changes through regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... solely through regulations are permitting balanced scorecard incentive payments which do not conflict advice and improvements to the grandfathering provisions. Changes through regulation will come into effect from July 1, 2014, until December 31, 2015 ...