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FPA's Ask an Expert week sees 150 inquiries

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) registered over 150 consumer questions submitted to advisers during the second edition of its Ask an Expert week. However, the Ask an Expert website had 7,038 page views during the first week of February, which ...

DomaCom added to Lonsec platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... opening the product up to a broader market of advisers and superannuation funds. "We are impressed with the level of interest among our clients who are keen for a property asset class solution, particularly in the residential space and are excited to ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... ago now that the day the unemployment rate goes through the threshold is the day the Fed starts thinking about lifting interest rates? So now we're back to where we were before forward guidance - that is, guessing. I sorta touched on this lightly yesterday ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... Congress she expects to continue predecessor Ben Bernanke's plan to wind down the Fed's bond-buying gradually and keep interest rates low until the jobs market improves significantly. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Bowen's FoFA fears "complete rubbish": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... responded to comments from Industry Super Australia (ISA) chief executive David Whiteley saying that changes on the best interest obligation were "an extraordinary and unseemly scramble to" wind the reforms back." "The recommendations that we see today ...

FPA slams detractors of best interest amendment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... amendments" that will remove a sub-section of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation referring to the best interest duty. "We are witnessing an extraordinary effort by product providers and those who represent them to build a political position ...

APRA to scrutinise group insurance risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... significantly pushed up group insurance premiums. Brunner also said APRA would be carrying out a thematic review of conflicts of interest. "We've identified areas where we see potential conflicts arising. One we've identified is multiple directors on ...

Windham wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... Turton added: "Our risk management approach combined with access to our research and insights is seeing considerable interest growing in both Australia and the United States."

ANZ profit on the rise in first quarter

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... has also led to ongoing improvements in the quality of our lending book... together with the outlook for continued low interest rates and low levels of corporate leverage," he said in a statement. Shares in Australia's third largest bank by market value ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... substantial risk to the U.S. economic outlook." Yes, it's good, but it gets better. Don't go expecting the Fed to raise interest rates anytime soon. Forget the January employment report that showed the jobless rate falling to 6.6% because "the recovery ...