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FPA reveals 10 point plan to improve advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... "should have suspension powers for financial planners and advisers suspected of material and systemic breaches of the best interest duty." ASIC must have a justifiable position and the financial planner/adviser has the right of appeal to AAT. The organisation ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The prospect of rising interest rates has forced institutional investors to sit up and take notice of product innovations in the fixed income market. But with so many strategies to choose from, how do large investors and their advisers choose the right ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... is set for a positive start to trade, after Wall Street lifted when the US Federal Reserve confirmed no change to its interest rate plans. At 0700 AEST on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,459. In company news ...

Beware engaged baby boomers, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Increased member engagement could lead to a spike in complaints, according to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) chairperson Jocelyn Furlan. Furlan said this was a particular danger among the baby boomer generation, who have proved some of ...

FPA campaigns for a separation of product and advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... appropriate safe haven to investors who should expect that financial advice -not product sales- always be given in their best interest," the FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said. "FoFA began as a set of ideals for the future of financial advice," he ...

CBA, CSSA promote FoFA legal loophole

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... re-defining corporate clients as 'wholesale' would mean that neither they nor their employees would be covered by a best interest duty, and conflicted remuneration would be allowed. The practices would therefore be identical, but due to a change in technical ...

States urged to recycle infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... at Port Hedland Port, the TAB and the Water Corporation's assets. While many of these assets are likely to attract the interest of large individual super funds or consortiums such as IFM Investors and The Infrastructure Fund, Nahan was clear that no ...

Fostering ethical standards crucial to industry reputation: CFA

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... winning." CFA Society of Melbourne president Paula Allen added that CFA charterholders are well placed to fulfil the best interest duty required by financial advisers due to their A strong foundation in ethical principles, together with thorough education ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Governance eclipses social and environmental concerns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Governance almost totally eclipses environmental and social factors when it comes to stakeholder concern, a report by AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has shown. The report showed that stakeholders with voting rights are overwhelmingly concerned with ...