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Super fund drives member awareness

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... value those services deliver. About 57 per cent of respondents do not trust their fund as much since the global financial crisis. TWUSUPER had $1.99 billion in funds under management as at June 30, 2009, according to Rainmaker research.

Swan names new ASIC, ACCC heads

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... particularly his close coordination with the Government and our other financial regulators during the global financial crisis," said Swan. If approved, Medcraft's appointment will extend for a term of five years. In related news, Treasurer Swan also ...

Direct investors dump managed funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... investors preferred to delegate," noted the survey report.. Driving the exodus is that "experiences during the global financial crisis appear to have encouraged many investors to take a more active role in building their knowledge and in making decisions ...

Gillard urges China investment relationship

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... for Australian resources- buying 25 per cent of all Australian exports. "Like China, we emerged from the global financial crisis without dropping into recession. This performance is explained by several factors. China's continued demand for our exports ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... financial crisis of 1997/98. Talks of capital control management would have still been a no-no had the global financial crisis not shown that unfettered free market policies also lead to greed that impoverishes. But heading towards the other extreme ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... London overnight that world markets remained fragile, despite many economies having recovered from the global financial crisis. But he said the miner was well placed for growth as emerging markets urbanised. The big retail banks were mostly weaker. ANZ ...

Planners struggle to sell practices as values fall

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... from an average of 15 per month in 2010 to 10 per month in 2011. Interest had been recovering from the global financial crisis, but uncertainty over the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms was causing both sellers and buyers to sit on the sidelines ...

Regrets, I've had a few

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... from current average returns of around half that and, in some cases, not earning anything at all when the global financial crisis struck. Almost half of the 1,000 retirees surveyed also expect to receive the aged pension yet only 31 per cent of current ...

Financial planners crushed by rigid ATO

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... claims when things go wrong, with a surge of private indemnity insurance claims also occurring after the global financial crisis. Ben Graham, financial planning representative for Centric Wealth Advisers, said that setting clear expectations with the ...

Count enters asset finance market

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... group, choose to enter the asset finance market after it was forced to restrict this avenue during the global financial crisis. "The GFC restricted our existing asset finance sources, which meant Count Members were sometimes forced to send their small ...