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FINRA relaxes social media controls

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
Australian financial planners may see some of their social media compliance issues lessen if Australian regulators follow FINRA's lead, after the US regulator proposed changes to its rulings to allow planners to communicate through social media without ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
Well this is it folks, my last piece for the Year 2011 - the year most of us would like to forget. And for my finale, I'd like to take you back to the beginning. At the start of 2011, I wrote: "If you think 2010 was a challenging year, early indications ...

Wagging the dog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
To all those who have Christmas lunches - long liquid lunches - to go to today, go now pronto for developments in the financial markets last night was another one of those "ho-hum" moments. Not that you'll pick it from the headlines and stories doing ...

SMSFs dominating super assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
The peak body for SMSFs has welcomed the latest Australian Tax Office statistics which show SMSF assets have grown at twice the rate of total super industry assets in the past five years to June 30 2010. According to the "Self Managed Super Funds: a ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
So here we are... in another "waiting to exhale" moment. Like I, me and Irene expected, volatility's picked up ahead of the unveiling of yet another European Grand Plan. It's Plan Numero Five this time. And like the anticipation that went before Plans ...

Christmas deadline for FOFA clarity: ANZ

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
ANZ Wealth has warned that Christmas is the "absolute drop dead date" for clarity on FOFA reforms before implementation costs double. Paul Barrett, ANZ general manager advice and distribution, told reporters in Sydney yesterday that time is ticking ...

Fund managers out-invest school kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
At this year's ASX Schools Sharemarket Games, the 60,000 participating school students showed that they have only half the skill of professionals investment managers. The results should come as welcome relief to managed funds investors throughout Australia ...

HOSTPLUS, CareSuper take top gongs at AIST awards

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Cooking competitions and Olympians were the winning formulas for HOSTPLUS and CareSuper with the two super funds winning the top awards at the annual AIST 2011 Awards for Excellence. The awards, attended by around 200 industry members, recognised diversity ...

Prettiest of them all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most beautiful of all?" The year 2011 is almost done and by the looks of it, it's turning out to be an annus horribilis for growth assets - equities and commodities - but a good year for defensive investments ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite world stock markets coming under pressure as the eurozone debt crisis continues to push most European government borrowing costs dangerously higher. At 0800 AEDT on Thursday, the December ...