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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... the US and Europe and Moscow - and speculation over the faster- and sooner-than-predicted US Federal Reserve hike in interest rates hogged most of last week's headline space, changes have also been afoot in China. In a statement on its website dated ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... to 16,331.05 points. Investors put aside Wednesday's comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on the timing of interest-rate hikes and focused on jobless claims data and manufacturing figures that both beat market estimates. On the local market ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... equities news is expected on Friday. The Australian market on Thursday more than one per cent on the prospect of higher interest rates in the US after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said a rate hike may begin "around six months" after the Fed's stimulus ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
The share market is trading lower after the United States Federal Reserve flagged an interest rate rise in 2015. A remark from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated the rough timeframe for an interest rate hike, which was sooner than investors ...

Industry receives FoFA bill with mixed feelings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... introduced yesterday to the parliament. The FPA supports the removal of the "catch all" definition of the advisers' best interest duty under section 961B(1) of the Corporations Act. "It was undefined and we would have had to wait for a court case to ...

Count Financial launches its Accountants' Solution

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
Commonwealth Bank aligned deal group Count Financial (Count) has launched a solution for accountants wanting to provide self-managed superannuation (SMSF) advice following the removal of the accountants' licensing exemption. Count chief executive David ...

Government limits general advice exemption in FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... retrospective application of fee disclosure statements and the removal of the "catch all" definition of the advisers' best interest duty under section 961B(1) of the Corporations Act. The industry welcomed the fact that the government put "on hold" the ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... 6.5% back in December 2012 and so were game enough to put that promise on paper that they wouldn't even consider raising interest rates till then. This is the reason why the Fed just dropped that quant threshold but... here we go again. Sooner and faster ...

FoFA introduced into parliament with some tweaks

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
As expected the bill to amend the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms was introduced to parliament today. The Corporations Amendment (Streamlining of Future of Financial Advice) Bill 2014 saw an 11th hour amendment to the general advice component ...

Assistant Treasurer Sinodinos to stand aside amid ICAC inquiry

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... Labor MP Kelvin Thomson, who was Shadow Assistant Treasurer between 1998 and 2001, said that "it would be in the best interest of the integrity of the system if Senator Sinodinos would step aside" and called on Prime Minister Tony Abbott to ask him to ...