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Gold Coast advice firm enters EU over misleading ads

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
Gold Coast-based financial planning and property management business Equanimity Concepts has entered into an enforceable undertaking (EU) with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The regulator found that from January 2012 to ...

Scale not what it used to be

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The SelectingSuper awards shortlist for 2014 shows that scale isn't the factor it once was. The 2014 SelectingSuper awards are on again next week in Melbourne and an analysis of the shortlisted finalists shows that boutique and mid-sized funds make ...

Prime Super appoints fourth independent director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
Prime Super has appointed St Vincent's Private Hospitals chief executive Martin Day to its board as an independent director, bringing the total number of independent directors to four. Day is the first director to represent the health and aged care ...

Winners of advice research grants revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
The Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) has awarded the 2015 FPEC academic research grants to academics from Deakin University and the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Recipients of the grants will be awarded $5,000 each to support the research ...

FEATURE: Risk at risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
In the wake of the group insurance crisis, super funds are one-by-one renegotiating their contracts with their life insurers. As a result, premiums are rising significantly, in many cases bringing them in line with retail premiums. This is causing some ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
What had been a mathematically-derived, guessed at and/or expected a,-1 trillion expansion in the European Central Bank's (ECB) balance sheet has just become fact - ECB President Mario Draghi promised - and it's unanimous. Most would have probably read ...

BetaShares launches new equity income fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
Exchange traded fund (ETF) provider BetaShares is targeting SMSF investors and retirees with the launch of a new yield-focused ETF. The BetaShares Australian Dividend Harvester Fund (managed fund), will trade under the ASX code "HVST". It seeks to maximise ...

Rejoice for the A$ has fallen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
"...I see your true colors Shining through." - Cyndi Lauper Has the A$ just revealed its true colour? It's a Democrat and an Obama groupie! The Australian dollar "plummeted" "nosedived" "plunged" "tumbled" "was smoked" following reports that the Republicans ...

IOSCO updates FinLit framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has released its final report outlining its global framework for investor education and financial literacy. In their Strategic Framework for Investor Education and Financial Literacy report ...

Investors should be wary of mixed USD signals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
Mixed signals coming from the US Fed's monetary policy committee should temper investors from overreacting to expectations of rising US rates and an increasing USD, noted Amundi Asset Management in its latest global investor update. Causing the ambiguity ...