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Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... statements when policy is left unchanged. The "Notes to Editors" served as a reminder of the last time the BOE adjusted interest rates settings and by how much. "The previous change in Bank Rate was a reduction of 0.5 percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March ...

ASX mFunds FUM already ahead of ETFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... Australian equity funds are so far the most commonly listed funds making up one quarter of the products. Global fixed interest products, however, represent almost 40% of the available FUM. There are also six diversified mFunds. Despite the slow start ...

QIC funds added to Federation platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
Two QIC managed funds, DDH Global Fixed Interest Alpha Fund and the DDH Balanced Growth Fund, have been added to the Federation Managed Accounts fund. The funds' responsible entity is DDH Graham, and the funds are managed by QIC. Federation described ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... Wall Street after a solid kickoff to the US earnings season from Alcoa and Federal Reserve minutes that signalled low interest rates for a while longer. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,424. ...

HOSTPLUS nearly ready for SMSF infra investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... the way we're not paying away excess stamp duty or anything like that." Sicilia said that there was a healthy level of interest from the SMSF sector. "But unfortunately the message today is, we can't take your money." In an environment where outflow ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... seek financial advice. And that safety net is laws that ensure that the system and advisers are acting in people's best interest. "Or you've got the bank idea: no safety net, an unregulated, deregulated free-for-all on default super, where the bank leverages ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... not yet reached sustainable velocity and therefore those bring forward of expectations with regards to the Fed's first interest rate hike are merely that, expectations. You won't read about the sooner-rather-than-later hike in the fed funds rate in last ...

Intra-fund advice exemptions in doubt

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... retrospective fee disclosure requirements should stay in place for small business financial advisers, is consider whether in the interest of competitive neutrality, those requirements should apply equally across the financial services sector, including ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... of July 4th. Though some would have you believe something more sinister and all that jazz are afoot. There's the Fed interest rate hike expectations brought forward following last week's strong jobs data raison d'etre. "The central bank will increase ...

EQT completes ANZ Trustees acquisition

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... solutions that can be offered to their traditional trustee clients. Both groups have agreed to explore other areas of mutual interest such as the development of solutions to meet the needs of ANZ clients who need access to aged care services. ANZ will ...