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Pipelines the safe bet in the shale gas revolution

JAMES FERYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... reached as early 2025. The US is leading the world in shale gas exploration and drilling. Thanks to high demand, relaxed regulations, plentiful reserves and permission-to-drill waiting periods of less than two weeks, there are copious incentives for ...

Midwinter puts planning software into the cloud

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... software that planners can access from the cloud. The software is fully compliant with Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulations and includes client engagement tools that allow advisers to share files with their clients. Clients can also access a ...

Paragem FUA reaches $1.9bn after new mergers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... Dolfinwise Jason Bragger is on the Queensland Financial Planning Association (FPA) committee for board policy and regulations. Paragem managing director Ian Knox said that the growth is part of Paragem's controlled expansion with practices operating ...

Retirees could benefit from a vibrant annuities market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... arguments for pensions over lump sums, Asher said superannuation and insurance providers' hands are tied by government regulations. The Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act regulations are "extremely complicated and quite restrictive," he said. ...

ASIC takes aim at charitable investment funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... bank deposit account, even though they are not," the paper said. ASIC offers two alternative amendments to current regulations. The first option is to "remove all existing exemptions for new investment fundraising, except exemptions from the AFS licensing ...

'Product agnostic' netwealth announces record growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Basel III to see banks focus on longer-term depositors

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... according to ING DIRECT's executive director distribution Lisa Claes. Although the final details of the Basel III regulations are yet to be finalised in Australia, Claes believes the incentive to provide single customers with multiple products will be ...

MySuper draft regs released for consultation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... required to disclose investment risk and the dollar value of fees and their investment performance under proposed regulations released by the government. The government's draft MySuper regulations released today, outline how the final stage of the MySuper ...

Austock Group company secretary resigns

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... reported a full year after tax loss of $16 million, blaming one-off costs from the sale of its securities business and regulations which tied up capital. Austock lost $10.7 million through its securities business, which it sold to Intersuisse Holdings ...

Industry under-prepared for SuperStream: Bravura

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... Babel software, Bravura believes it has an efficient solution to enable business to comply with the new SuperStream regulations, which require funds to exchange information electronically in industry-standard formats by a 1 July 2013 deadline. Stevens ...