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Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... semblance of calm in the financial markets last night - it was 50 yesterday though. This seems just right - not too much, not nothing. It seems logical, it seems rational and it's the consensus. Then again, consensus had been wrong before. Guess we'll ...

Churning needs to be tackled with underwriters

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... Financial Services Council's policy was designed to prevent business from being moved away from the life office but does nothing to address where it is going.

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... gossips, rumours and innuendos leading up to the Greek elections. And as we've seen time and again in recent history, nothing gets settled until the 11th hour. Despite all the pros and cons of a Greek exit that's littered the blogosphere, Greece's decision ...

Industry questions RE concept after Trio collapse

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... independent trustees merely represented another layer of fees that were being charged against client accounts with essentially nothing to show for their presence. They were not seen as 'independent' or a real-time regulator of funds." Kalman however ...

Investors focus on Russian consumer stocks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... debt burden," said Hanson-Lawson. "Today in Russia, the average mortgage debt outstanding is $180 - which is absolutely nothing. Secondly no one borrowed money in the 1990s because the whole transition was very problematic and rather lawless and thirdly ...

AIST warns MySuper deadline tight

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... that it is done pending a review. "We're not having a dig at the work that's been done, because something is better than nothing, but by putting in the standardised risk measure without any qualification to it runs the risk that it will be set in stone," ...

CSSA: MySuper puts corporate super insurance at risk

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... loss of benefits. But, as we know, without advice, many people will not fully understand the consequences and simply do nothing." The CSSA MySuper submission proposes that, rather than a member being required to 'opt out', the option should be to opt-in ...

Budget move to take superannuation 'back to the future'

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... Andrew Boal, Managing Director for Towers Watson in Australia said the rumoured new tax on superannuation contributions has nothing to do with a well-considered policy and fails the government's own test of achieving simple, fair and consistent outcomes. ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
US Payrolls. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Yes Virginia, the greatly speculated, the much awaited, the indicator that'll set the tone in the financial markets over the next four weeks, that mother of all eco stats -- the US Non-farm Payrolls ...

ASIC flags guidance on code approval

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... before codes that are consistent with the FOFA legislation are out in the marketplace," Kell said. "However, there is nothing to stop potential applicants for an approved code from starting to consider how they can work to make their code consistent ...