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Abuse of reporting rules widespread: Medcraft

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has highlighted companies "abuse" of breach reporting rules. The head of the industry watchdog made the comments in front of a Senate public hearing in Sydney on Friday following ...

FIIG inks $60m corporate bond deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
FIIG Securities has acted as the lead arranger for an unsecured corporate bond offering to raise up to $60 million for health and beauty supplier McPherson's Limited. This is the second corporate bond transaction that FIIG Securities has assisted with ...

BT adds managed funds to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
BT Financial Group will add managed funds to its Panorama investment platform, which in the future will also offer individual equities and advanced portfolio management for advisers. BT Managed Portfolios will offer advisers and their clients a simple ...

Advisers need to provide multi-pronged services

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
Cost is a prohibitive factor for many Australians in taking up comprehensive financial advice, but they are happy to transition from lower-priced discrete advice to a holistic service over time. This is the key finding of Investment Trends' 2014 Advice ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street surged more than one per cent following the Federal Reserve's statement on interest rates. At 0815 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,880. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
The Australian stock market is weaker after negative leads from overseas markets and pain in the energy sector. Stocks on Wall Street and in Europe fell overnight, oil prices plummeted to a fresh six-year low, putting pressure on energy stocks. "It's ...

Former Gold Coast adviser sentenced

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
A former Gold Coast financial adviser has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for false and misleading statements and providing advice without a reasonable basis. Ian John Weaver, working at Enhance Capital and The Salisbury Group during the time ...

Connect Brokers sets up Asian initiative

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Connect Financial Service Brokers has set up a specialist consultancy firm dedicated to connecting small and medium advice business owners with partnership opportunities in the Asia Pacific Region. The new business, Connect ASEAN, is based in Melbourne ...

NAB too big to change culture overnight: Thorburn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) chief executive Andrew Thorburn has admitted that cultural change in such large organisation "probably takes five, 10 years," in light of the regulator's concerns about its financial planning arm. Thorburn noted that NAB ...

PIMCO brings distribution in-house

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
PIMCO has internalised the distribution operations of its Australian fund business. Equity Trustees, which previously handled fund distribution, will transfer responsibility over to PIMCO over the coming months, though it will continue to act as the ...