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AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... December share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,360. The Dow closed just shy of the 18,000 mark after the US Labor Department reported that a much stronger-than-expected 321,000 jobs were added to the economy in November, the best jobs ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... economic data. At 0908 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was unchanged at 5,407. The US Labor Department said weekly applications rose 21,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 313,000, the highest level since the first week of ...

Industry welcomes grandfathering deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The financial services industry has welcomed the parliamentary agreement between the Coalition and Labor to fix the unintended consequences of scrapping grandfathering from the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The Financial Planning Association ...

Grandfathering set to become next advice battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... provision can be fixed "relatively quickly" because it does not need to go through legislation. At the same time, the Coalition, Labor and the Greens have previously agreed that the inability to grandfather previous business when changing licensees was ...

Original FoFA laws take immediate effect

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
Financial advisers must fully comply with Labor's original Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) laws from today, after the Senate voted to disallow the government's amendments last night. The reversion to the original legislation took effect as soon as ...

Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... why good public policy reform in this area is important in the public interest and in the consumers interests." Last night Labor was successful in its attempts to disallow the government's changes to the FoFA legislation. At the final hour Palmer United ...

Industry furious at financial advice swap

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... services industry responded with ire after the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) laws were demolished in the Senate overnight. Labor, the Greens and four crossbenchers, including Palmer United Party's Jacqui Lambie, argued the Coalition's proposed changes ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
A Senate alliance between Labor, the Greens and three crossbench Senators has pushed for a motion to disallow the Coalition's proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation in a move that could put the industry immediately into ...

Questions raised about ANZ and Timbercorp

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... Committee. He said that in January 2007 he was aware that Timbercorp's grape, olive, citrus and mango projects "were in trouble." Labor Senator and chair of the inquiry Sam Dastyari pointed to a key question that ANZ will have to answer either in its ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... 0.03 per cent to 2,031.92. But the US' October jobs growth came in below the 235,000 expected by analysts, although, the Labor Department revised upward by a total of 31,000 the number of net new jobs gained in the previous two months. The report also ...

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Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   12:01PM
Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund.

AusFood Super looks to revitalise member engagement

MATTHEW WAI  |   11:30AM
The $3.5 billion super fund has partnered with InvestStream to launch RetireSmart+, becoming the first super fund to bring an AI-powered engagement experience to some 66,000 members.

L1 Group posts 'marked recovery' in June quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   12:13PM
L1 Group has reported a marked recovery in investment performance in the June quarter.

European PE firm mandates Apostle with Australian distribution

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   11:50AM
Apostle Fund Management has been appointed by European investment firm Triton Partners for the distribution of its credit strategies in Australia and New Zealand.

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