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HOSTPLUS nearly ready for SMSF infra investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
HOSTPLUS' infrastructure investment option for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) is ready to go, pending the approval of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the fund's chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. The option ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... they had been. A great deal has happened between the two industry bodies since then. A Coalition government has replaced a Labor one, giving the FSC the political advantage (Brogden himself is a former NSW Liberal leader); the Future of Financial Advice ...

Labor questions Murray, calls for another inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... Bank. Even in issues of perception, this is not the right place to have these matters examined," Bowen said. Bowen said that Labor will be pushing for a further parliamentary inquiry into ASIC and the CBA because it is "the best that the Labor party ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... employment and 2 percent inflation. This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial developments. ...

Intra-fund advice exemptions in doubt

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... of advice without proportionate improvements in consumer protections and deal with some of the unintended consequences of Labor's changes where that is necessary to maintain competition in the financial services market in the public interest. "I look ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... Composite Index, which tacked on 88.00 (2.00 per cent) to 4,485.93. The highlight of the week was Thursday's Department of Labor employment report, which showed the US economy added a healthy 288,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate fell to ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... about the "considerable slack" in the labour market. "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers, stagnant wages, lower labor-force participation and longer periods of joblessness" show that "there remains considerable slack in the economy and the labor ...

Government still mulling response on Senate report

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... government is appropriate action not endless study, particularly studies which don't necessarily lead to outcomes," he said. Labor has called for a royal commission into the CBA's misconduct.

CBA boss to be grilled on Senate report

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... included the forging of client signatures to facilitate profit-producing product switches. The committee's chairman, retiring Labor senator Mark Bishop, said CBA failed to open its books and fully identify the number of clients affected and those entitled ...

Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... significant deceleration either). Then again, this report could well be just as quickly forgotten when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the official jobs tally for June... but this, too, had been trending sideways since 2011. You, I and ...