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CBA forced to review poor compensation methods

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... for clients of former advisers Don Nguyen and Anthony Awkar. However, they did not apply the same measures to clients affected by other financial planners' poor advice. "This inconsistency disadvantaged some customers," ASIC said. According to ASIC CBA ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... is hard to see the market trading higher at all and we might even see some of these losses extend." Among the miners affected by profit taking and commodity price falls were nickel miner Western Areas, which had slumped by 35 cents, or eight per cent ...

Budget forces advisers to rethink tax, retirement strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... if they have kids moving into school or university." Advisers will have to keep an eye on clients born after 1965 and affected by the raise of the Age Pension eligibility age; especially on those working on physical jobs and "unlikely to be able to retire ...

NAB wealth division reports flat earnings

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... funds flow in previous periods. However, higher group insurance claims and higher costs to support regulatory change affected the result. "Excluding costs supporting regulatory change, operating expenses remained flat," the company said. NAB said that ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... - from 2.6% in the three months ended December. But... the devil's details confirm that the adverse winter conditions affected overall growth. And oh, this was yesterday's news. And oh, with growth (if you could call it growth) like this... a pick-up ...

IPA joins calls for LISC reintroduction

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... superannuation system that helps those who need assistance to save for their retirement. With one in three working Australians affected, it is important that there are incentives to save for retirement," Conway continued. Up until the 2008-09 financial ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... move higher, he said. Monthly building approval figures for Australia, released on Wednesday, were disappointing but affected the Australian dollar more than the share market, Mr Le Brun said. Approvals for the construction of new homes fell 5.0 per ...

ICAA questions AFSL system, calls for individual licensing

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... accountancy body said that it would be valuable to review whether the delivery of "sound financial advice" was being affected by the potential conflicts "arising from these vertically integrated models." The ICAA has argued that the current AFSL system ...

FoFA uncertainty presents good buying opportunity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... retirement phase - probably even more crucially in the retirement phase," he told Financial Standard.A A "FoFA massively affected sentiment. It brought a substantial degree of uncertainty as it was initially being proposed, and it presented a fantastic ...

FICAP RockStar of the year crowned

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... vulnerable young people, women, children and families; Redkite, which supports children, young people and their families affected by cancer; and YWCA NSW, whose mission is to "support vulnerable people across NSW at times in their lives when they need ...