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PIPA suspends Money Choice director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) has suspended Money Choice director Matthew George after it was found he had failed to comply with credit laws. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) last week banned George ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Dive! Dive! Dive! You've heard the news - our very own currency is top of the pops no more, it's made one hell of celebrity splash over the past week as it fell below parity against the big dollar and continued to head down ...

Planner numbers drop on FoFA changes

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
Overall numbers of financial planners have dropped by 2% from a 2012 high point of 18,545 in 2012 according to recent Rainmaker research. According to the research there are currently 18,096 planners in Australia, with a loss of 450 from 2012. "On the ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... months in the plus, the Philly Fed index fell back into the red this month. So did the Empire State index. It went negative in May - the first red ink since January. Be afraid if these latest weekly/monthly data instalments become a trend. Be really ...

IG offers Bitcoin bet

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
UK-based derivatives trader IG is introducing a "limited risk binary" on volatile internet currency Bitcoin. Described by US tech publication DailyTech as "a peer-to-peer internet-driven cryptocurrency", Bitcoin is notoriously unstable. It soared in ...

Retirement objective is income not performance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
Providing retirement income solutions for super fund members requires funds to be clear about their goals. Is it achieving high investment returns, enabling members to accumulate high fund balances or is it about providing retirement income, notwithstanding ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
Australian bond futures prices are higher as weak economic data from the US and Europe sparks a move into safe-haven assets. During the overnight session, it was reported that the euro zone recession continued into a six quarter in the first three months ...

SMSF growth slows on low super system confidence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
A lack of confidence in the superannuation system is slowing the growth of the self-managed super fund (SMSF) market, according to Jordan George, technical development and policy manager at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). Speaking ...

Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
"Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning Like a whirlpool it never ends..." -Tommy Roe Done listening, watching and reading all about whys, hows, whens and wherefores of budget 2013-14? I know I am, I'm so, like, over it. It's good. No, it's bad. Nah ...

EQT ups offer for Trust Company

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
Equity Trustees (EQT) has issued revised proposal for the acquisition of The Trust Company after its first offer was rejected in favour of a counter offer by Perpetual Limited (Perpetual). In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange this morning ...