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Advice not just compliance: Centrepoint

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... than the needs of clients." "We need to embrace the FOFA changes to consumer protections, remuneration, conflicts of interest and justification for product recommendations. However, effective compliance will not in itself deliver what clients are looking ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... September instead of June (yay!). That's an extra three months for companies to refinance or issue debts at near zero interest rates to pay dividends or buyback their own scripts (so they reduce their dividend payouts) - both of which sends share prices ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... about the world's biggest economy, which grew slower than expected in the first quarter, and makes a Federal Reserve interest rate rise unlikely in the early summer, reversing expectations from the start of the year. "While US growth is rebounding, it ...

XTB launch opens corporate bonds to retail

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... investors, including many SMSFs, have been heavily reliant on term deposits for predicable, stable returns. But with interest rates at historical lows - and expected to remain low - we saw a definite gap in the market and have identified a solution that ...

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Investors with a long term focus could benefit from a strategy that targets low volatility at a moment when it is expected to raise, HSBC global asset management's head of global equities Angus Parker said. HSBC's Global Low Vol strategy sits within ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... increased twice the growth in income since 1984. "Growing debt fuels asset prices, as does the cost of debt. So when interest rates eventually rise, this will be a problem for Australian banks as bad debts will probably start rising, hitting their ea ...

Economist asleep over budget investment market impact

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... still see fiscal contraction in the economy and there's nothing in the budget to suggest the Reserve Bank will jack up interest rates anytime soon and there is a risk they might fall again. "What does it mean in relation to interest rates? I think this ...

New initiative to improve women's economic health

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced a partnership with not-for-profit 10thousandgirl in a bid to improve the financial literacy and economic health of women in regional areas. The partnership will see the FPA play an ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... off the rank to normalise policy did and has done again. Around this time last year, markets expected the BOE to raise interest rates by late-2014, Gov Carney then changed the 7.0% unemployment trigger to a "threshold" and introduced "forward guidance" ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... economy - following soft trade and inflation data last week - and come days after the central bank at the weekend cut interest rates again for the third time since November. WELLINGTON - The prospect of lower interest rates has buoyed the New Zealand ...