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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
The Australian share market has received overall negative leads from offshore trading over the weekend. Wall Street indices were slightly lower, and most metals and oil also were down. European markets were middling. At 0721 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

Aussie planners should turn to Asia: Hockey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
The shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, urges financial planners in Australia to expand their client base to Asia as the region's wealth continues to escalate. "I think Australian financial advisers are among the very best of the world," he said at an Association ...

The trillion dollar election question

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
With the election less than two weeks away, a key super fund executive weighs in on how it plans to grow the fund regardless of who wins the race. Paul Schroder, general manager of growth and new opportunities at AustralianSuper, said the trillion dollar ...

Top CEOs back statutory fiduciary duty for advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
The country's top executives in financial services said that the Ripoll Inquiry recommendation to impose statutory fiduciary duty for financial advisers is the best way to improve the quality of advice, a survey shows. The Financial Services Council/PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

IOOF agrees to buy North

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
IOOF has announced that provided NAB acquires AXA Asia Pacific it will buy the AXA North platform, potentially removing a major stumbling block holding back the NAB-AXA merger. The focus on the North platform is because the competition regulator, the ...

Trustees address 'young' elephant in the room

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
Credit unions and super funds share the common dilemma of how to best serve their younger stakeholders, and it's a risk that becomes more pressing as their Baby Boomer clients move on from 'saving for retirement' to 'spending their savings' phase. Mark ...

One in four retail fund members to switch: CHOICE

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
One in four retail super fund members are considering switching to other super options because they are dissatisfied with the fees, customer service or investment options, CHOICE research found. Choice's survey of 1,400 members in June showed 23 per ...

IML Future Leaders posts 25pc return

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
Investors Mutual Limited's (IML) Future Leaders Fund returned more than 25 per cent for the financial year to July beating its benchmark by more than 12 per cent and cementing its spot in the top five best performing Australian equities funds over the ...

Art lobby wins fight to keep SMSFs art-friendly

SPAA MEDIA STATEMENT  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
The Federal Government has endorsed the Cooper Review's key MySuper reforms but in a major victory for the art industry and self-managed super fund trustees, it said that it won't adopt the move to ban SMSFs from investing in 'collectables'. The leading ...

Mandatory trustee pay disclosure draws debate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Proposed trustee governance reforms will fix many of the regulatory gaps in the system, but Cooper Review panelist Sandy Grant questions adopting 'listed company' type governance measures, such as mandatory pay disclosure, just for the sake of having ...