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CPAs want better SoAs

CPA Australia has welcomed the Federal Government's Refinements to Financial Services Reform proposal but has expressed a desire for the government to go further to allow Statements of Advice (SoA) to be less complex and arduous. The accounting body ...

Citigroup yields to structured investments

Citigroup is set to begin its "Equity First" campaign developed to increase awareness of its equity structured products including the launch of a structured equity investment vehicle providing risk averse investors access to the Asian market. The campaign ...

Zenith recommends transparent hedge fund

Zenith has given Deutsche Bank's second leveraged hedge fund offering Xenon Alpha Plus 2 (XAP2) a recommended rating highlighting that the product is highly transparent in cost and risk structure which 'makes a refreshing change for these types of products. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2005
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly firmer after yesterday's sharp falls, although weaker oil and base metal prices could weigh on the local bourse. Also, the market will have a shortened trading session today ahead of a four-day ...

Superannuation savings impacted by shorter working life

Recent figures from Navigator reveal a problem in the adequacy of some men's superannuation savings with 65 per cent of workers who lose their job through retrenchment are men. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics the highest retrenchment ...

Right direction for Merrill Lynch Australian share fund

Morningstar Research has given Merrill Lynch's Wholesale Australian Share Fund's investment strategy an investment grade rating. The fund has performed poorly over the last three years being outperformed by the index by 3.84 per cent per annum. Several ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2004
In Sydney today the sharemarket is expected to open slightly weaker as lacklustre trade from a shortened US trading session provides little direction for the local bourse. Weaker base metal prices to end last week could also weigh on the domestic resource ...

S&P changes its indices

S&P has announced changes to its indices in the US and Australia in relation to News Corporation. After trading closes on Friday December 17, 2004 New Corp. will be included as part of the S&P 500 index. Three to five days before News' inclusion in ...

Four stage phase out for News Corp; S&P

Index provider Standard & Poor's announced on Friday it had decided on a nine-month rolling period for the removal of News Corp from the S&P/ASX indices. S&P said News Corp, subject to a number of conditions, would be phased out of the ASX indices in ...

FPA backs new ASIC guidelines on SOA's

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has thrown is support behind the latest guidelines provided by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on how licensees and their representatives prepare Statements of Advice (SOA). "These ...