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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... US central bank, Yellen said she expects to continue predecessor Ben Bernanke's plan to scale back stimulus and keep interest rates low until the labor market improves significantly. LONDON - European stock markets enjoyed solid gains after new Federal ...

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JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... investors, particularly those with self-managed super funds, are staying true to this asset class despite record low interest rates. Sticking to the topic of SMSFs, our front page story looks at the opportunities for and barriers against this ever-growing ...

FoFA changes must go before parliament: Collins

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... Super Symposium, Collins said the amendments - in particular the one which does away with the catch-all clients' best interest requirement - are too fundamentally different from the original legislation to qualify as regulations. "The FoFA reforms were ...

AFA to lobby on FoFA through grassroots campaign

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is calling on members to lobby their local representative on the organisation's position around the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. "We are calling on our members to support ...

Excuses, excuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... exactly. The bloggies I read talk about the Fed continuing to taper - they must or lose credibility - but extend zero interest rates far, far into the neva neva. But to be fair, Wall Street's not totally full of it - excuses. They didn't have to make ...

Compensation opposed for SMSFs: SPAA

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... (Supervision) Act 1993 (SIS) Act that is available, at the Minister's discretion and only where it is in the public's best interest to approve compensation for APRA-regulated funds, there are other legal avenues that SMSFs can pursue," Slattery said. ...

FoFA amendments could bring back commissions: FPA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... the FoFA amendments that cut out the 'catch-all' requirements (s961B(2)(g)) that require advisers to put members' best interest first, without defining what 'best interest' means. He said it was "an extraordinary and unseemly scramble to" wind the reforms ...

EQT charitable trust distribute over $14.5 million

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... said that in the past ten years many new philanthropic trusts have been established. "This reflects people's increasing interest in actively supporting the community sector and because of an increasing awareness of the various options available for establishing ...

CBA: Expect higher inflation

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... prices. Blythe advised company directors in attendance to be mindful of these inflation risks and plan for a possible interest rate rise by the end of the year as the RBA moves to address the problem.

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... lack of action at the ECB, while banking on further recovery in the eurozone. The European Central Bank held its key interest rates steady at 0.25 per cent with bank head Mario Draghi brushing off widespread talk that damaging deflation was becoming ...