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Less conflict, more interest: FOFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... shouldn't attract any fees. "I've become strongly convinced that within superannuation, presence of fees and commissions had nothing to do in solving the underinsurance problem and is, instead, a drag on people's account balances." As for insurance outside ...

Any which way is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... apart from watching The Street shed a few points yesterday, we would have missed out on another day of just plain doing nothing but enjoying our holiday. As far as Wall Street goes, optimism was in the air even before the opening bell - or shall I say ...

Accountants attack planners over naming rights

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... to control the term under the Corporations Act would lock other professionals out of providing financial advice. "(Its) nothing more than a cover to exclude other equally qualified advisers such as accountants and lawyers," said Andrew Conway, chief ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... referred to the Australian housing market as a bubble. Economists such as Harvard professor Martin Feldstein have predicted nothing but gloom ahead for the troubled North American country, which must seek approval from congress to increase the $14.29 ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... increasing the super guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per cent, saying employers would be the ones to push against it. "Nothing is guaranteed especially the 9 to 12 per cent," she said. Vamos also said a third of the Cooper review recommendations had ...

Trustee fury prompts SMSF compo rethink

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... case. Affected SMSF trustees are outraged that APRA-managed super fund members will be fully compensated while they get nothing, even though this was the risk they took on when they decided to manage their own investments. Most of the 690 trustees left ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... be "modest". Been there... Even the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook released overnight had nothing fresh to add. It still believes that the global economy would grow by 4.4 per cent this year with developing economies expanding ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
Nothing seems to shake the optimism that's currently doing the rounds of the financial markets. Japan was again shaken by a strong aftershock but financial markets hardly stirred. AFP reports that, "A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake late hit the same ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... PIMCO and Goldman Sachs for management. "When you take sovereign wealth funds as clients, there is a risk," said White. "Nothing can be done with the funds if they are frozen... you need to be careful who your clients are." Another African country on ...

Investors in line for Fincorp payout

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... trustees, Sandhurst Trustees Limited. "What is particularly significant is that unsecured noteholders, who have received nothing through the liquidation and receivership of Fincorp and who thought that they had no chance of recovering any of their investment ...