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FPA calls for clear separation of general and personal advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to review the definitions of general and personal advice over concerns that the terms make it difficult for consumers to distinguish personal advice from product sales. ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... post-meeting press conference, ECB President Mario Draghi assured you, I and Irene (one more time) that, "We talked about lower interest rates, a lower deposit facility rate, we talked about QE" and them, the Governing Council, was "unanimous in its ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Madrid by 1.42 per cent. As expected, the European Central Bank kept its gunpowder dry again, holding its key "refi" interest rate at an all-time low of 0.25 per cent for the fifth month in a row. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose after another record ...

Government will go ahead with FoFA changes: Ciobo

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... costs that consumers face." Ciobo expressed commitment to every aspect of the bill, including the removal of the best interest duty catch-all provision, the removal of the opt-in requirement, and the sanctioning of commissions for general advice. The ...

Sinodinos says six figure AWH salary was 'reasonable'

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Former assistant treasurer Arthur Sinodinos has said he found it "reasonable" he was paid a salary of $200,000 per year as chairman of Australian Water Holdings (AWH), a role that involved between 25 and 44 hours of work every year. Sinodinos, was on ...

RBA questions super fund infra investment

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has questioned the role of superannuation funds boosting funding for infrastructure investment, saying that it is not appropriate to mandate funds to invest in assets to meet "broader national objectives." In its ...

Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) lawyer James Wheeldon has revealed the regulator gave favourable treatment to the big end of the market. Wheeldon appeared yesterday at a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the performance ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

Investec offers reduced interest rates to adviser's home loan

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Investec has developed a tailored home loan offer for financial advisers and is offering them reduced interest rates. After six years of developing products for advisers' clients, Investec is now targeting the advisers themselves. "Over the past six ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... stock markets are up, boosted by a slew of robust economic data and hopes global policy makers will continue to keep interest rates low. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.82 per cent to 6,652.61 points, while the DAX 30 in Frankfurt gained 0.50 ...