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Demand for ethical investments soars

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
Ethically-screened FUM monitored by the Ethical Advisers' Co-operative has increased by 18% in the past 12 months to $910 million. Labelling itself "Australia's First Adviser Co-Operative", the EAC is a collection of financial planning firms focused ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street. At 0820 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 5,827. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Hagger defends NAB advice, brushes off independent review

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
NAB Wealth chief executive Andrew Hagger has defended the bank's internal advice review processes to the Senate economics references committee. When asked by the committee why only eight serious process breaches were reported to ASIC - despite recent ...

NSW to receive $2 billion infrastructure incentive

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... its infrastructure recycling strategy, Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced. Designed to incentivise NSW Premier Mike Baird's plan to lease 49% of the state's electricity network to invest in rail and road projects, the payments come from the Commonwealth's ...

Advice M&A activity set to soar in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
Advice business mergers and acquisitions are set to reach unprecedented levels in 2015 thanks to regulatory certainty and an increasing demand for independent financial advice. "The shackles of poor investment markets and legislative uncertainty have ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) head of wealth Andrew Hagger will face tough questioning from the Senate Economics Committee at a hearing in Melbourne this afternoon. "The reason why we called this hearing is because we want to get to the bottom of this ...

Intergenerational Report shows need for financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The Treasury's Intergenerational Report highlights the importance of financial advice, according to the Financial Planning Association of Australia. Given that life expectancy at birth is expected to rise by four and three years for men and women respectively ...

What becomes of the broken hearted?

TREVOR HARRIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The period between separation and divorce is fraught with estate planning dangers, CommInsure national technical manager Alex Koodrin explained at a recent Financial Standard Technical Services Forum in Sydney. Koodrin said that the average time period ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... has also weakened against the yen - its main QE rival. Super Mario must be singing and dancing in the streets, his latest plan's playing out as planned... even before the first a,-60 billion hit the streets. The plan, of course, is to get the streets ...

Economic growth to slow significantly: IGR

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... opportunity. We also need to make choices today to prepare for the future," the report said. "We have a responsibility to plan and budget not only for today, but for tomorrow. But we are currently living beyond our means." The Australian Government is ...