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Planning industry on brink of golden era

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... think doctors get stuck into each other on blogs like we do in the financial planning industry," he said. "Professionalism isn't something you can confer on yourself, it's a privileged status conferred on you by the community. Putting the clients' interest ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... Don't worry, go shopping. They'll let us know when the time comes... in advance. But wait, hold your horses, hang on a moment! Isn't that day coming soon (for the US, at least)? Didn't the minutes of the 17-18 June FOMC meeting "forward guided" you ...

Are super funds the new shadow banks?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... to these dangers may be a new regulator solely dedicated to regulating superannuation. "APRA is all Australia's got, and it isn't much," he said.

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ...

FoFA disallowance vote will save "millions"

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Industry Super Australia (ISA) said that the last- minute deal would leave consumers at risk of conflicted financial advice which isn't in their interests. "While it is commendable that the Palmer United Party wishes to lift the bar on financial advice ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... hold, every airport, every building, every power station. "It's all there to be extracted from the custodian's data base. This isn't hard. It's an excel spread sheet." He said he only had one objection to the original standards which were proposed as ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... institution's global expansion forecasts, saying investment is still weak and risks remain in the U.S.". But, but... but that's good isn't it. That means more free play money from here to eternity or until the global expansion becomes self-expanding ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... mainly what's driving it," he said. And he said the gains were likely to continue in the second half of 2014. "The market isn't cheap at the moment, I think we've probably got another couple of hundred points to go this year." Resources stocks were mostly ...

Governor Glenn lets his jaw drop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent for almost a year now." Governor Glenn noted that "for rates to have been stable for this long isn't unprecedented," his problem is "markets and media commentators find the idea of masterly inaction neither appealing nor ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... the mining boom had shifted from its investment phase to its production and export phase". Yeah? So? What's wrong with that? Isn't the raison d'etre of businesses investing is so businesses could produce and sell those produce? Duh!... and businesses ...