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MySuper authorisations reaches 117

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... Elphinstone Group, Wesfarmers, Santos limited, Pitcher Partners, Toyota, Incitec Pivot, United Technologies, Dulux and the Water Corporation of WA. Retail groups now with a MySuper authorisation are EmPlus and Max Super. The new industry funds covered ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... winter-struck US. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index ended virtually unchanged at 6,796.71 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 also trod water ending at 9,660.05 points, while the CAC 40 in Paris climbed 0.24 per cent to 4,341.10 points. Britain's jobless ...

Member direct investment at "high water mark": AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... way of retaining members who would otherwise set up self-managed super funds - Haynes said in fact we may be at the "high water mark". "While there was an awful lot of interest in relation to MDI about a year ago, where it was everyone's hot topic, the ...

Of horse trades and the January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
Boyoboyoboy, by the looks of it...we're really in trouble now, real trouble. Nah, not talkin' bout the Fed taking another US$10 billion away, neither that dreadful indication that China is continuing to slow nor renewed deflation fears in the eurozone ...

Sinodinos defends "speedy" FoFA legislation

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
The Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos has denied claims that the government's plan to implement the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reform measures through regulations, rather than via legislation, is a way to avoid opposition scrutiny. Speaking ...

FPA condemns FoFA fear mongers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has urged planners to "rise above the noise of tired, product-centric arguments" in the early days of the watered-down Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. On 20 December 2013 Assistant Treasurer ...

FSC questions pertinence of APRA super stats

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... outperform industry funds during times of downturn. "But they don't," he said. "And I think that blows that argument out of the water." Haynes also agreed with comments made by David Whiteley in an op-ed in today's Australian Financial Review, where ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... 0.72 per cent to 4,129.37 points. Milan tacked on 0.73 per cent and Madrid edged up 0.9 per cent. European indices had trod water for much of the day but then shot up after the US Labor Department announced that the country's jobless rate fell sharply ...

China's party plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... was widely anticipated and had helped propel the Dow and S&P 500 to records on Tuesday. LONDON - European stocks treaded water while the euro gained against the US dollar as traders reacted to a batch of company updates while awaiting the outcome of ...