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Deal with government brings in consumer protection: Palmer

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
The Coalition's deal with the Palmer United Party (PUP) to retain the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation will provide a guarantee of consumer protection, MP Clive Palmer has said. Speaking to journalists in Canberra, Palmer ...

S&P denied appeal over landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Ratings agency S&P has been denied leave to appeal a Federal Court ruling in favour of 91 council, charities and church groups which lost at least $180 million when AAA-rated investments went sour in the wake of the global financial crisis. The judgement ...

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
A correction is looming... and soon! Right on schedule Virginia, we're again hearing calls for a dip, a fall, a stumble, a correction on Wall Street straight after both the S&P 500's and the Dow's climb to fresh record highs last week, yet again. How ...

AMP axes regional head of advice roles

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... Adelaide.\ "I was familiar with the work AHC did for AMP in 2006 and was very impressed. The project they completed for AMP was ground breaking - so much so, a national TV advertising campaign was created around it," Reeh said.

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of investor services Henry Capra

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
Henry Capra Eight months into his role as managing director and head of investor services at J.P. Morgan, Henry Capra talks to James Fernyhough about the increasingly competitive world of the custodian. That Henry Capra was born in Italy to Italian ...

FoFA changes designed to protect big players: opposition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
Labor, the Greens and Industry Super Australia (ISA) strongly opposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation on the grounds that changes "seem designed to protect the profits of larger financial services companies." Both Labor ...

Research contradicts group risk claims crisis

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Price hikes widely anticipated in the super fund group risk market have not manifested in any more than a small handful of funds. That is the finding of the 2014 Rainmaker superannuation group insurance survey of 14,834 risk options offered by 206 super ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
Lower commodity prices and falls on overseas markets are causing the share market to lose ground, as investors see little reason to invest. Slightly better than expected jobs data also had little impact on the market, reflecting the subdued investor ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... before the election, Tony Abbott declared his intentions to be "an infrastructure prime minister who puts bulldozers on the ground and cranes into our skies", more than a few super funds and investment managers pricked up their ears. Given the appetite ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
Almost 150,000 candidates from 179 countries are gearing up to sit six hours of examinations for their Level I, II and III CFA qualifications on Saturday. The number of exam registrations for this year's December 2013 to June 2014 exam cycle exceeds ...