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Problem is weak credit law, not us: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) claimed that it had limited jurisdiction over the credit industry in its final submission to the Senate inquiry. In its final submission, ASIC focused on the reforms to the credit industry and ...

McCredden joins Infradebt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013

We're watching you, APRA warns trustees

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... "We will continue to push the industry to enhance its standards and practice in key areas, and to retain an unrelenting focus on putting members' interests first." She said that the size and complexity of the super industry made it similar to other financial ...

AMP Capital nabs NAB exec for new SMSF role

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
AMP Capital has appointed Tim Keegan to the newly-created role of head of SMSF, in a move to "ramp up" its presence in the self-managed super sector. Keegan was formerly the head of nabtrade, the online broking business of the National Australia Bank ...

Investment industry urged to put society first

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... review its processes and challenge long-held norms about the way capital is allocated. Smith said that new technology, a focus on cost-cutting and a desire to put the end client at the centre of market participants thinking is threatening traditional ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
Stronger, stronger, slowly getting stronger. Worldwide focus has been on the Fed and Washington over the past few months but that seems to have distracted some observers from seeing the positive developments across the Atlantic; though methinks Europe ...

Demand for industrial property exceeds expectations

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
Investors' appetite for industrial property, especially from the self-managed super segment, is ahead of expectations, inflows into one property fund manager's specialist product indicate. Charter Hall has announced that it has closed its Direct Industrial ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
We're back! Yes Virginia, the financial market world's returning to where they were before - I'd say before 22 May 2013. You know the one, the day Ben Bernanke testified before Congress and was asked if the Fed is "going to tighten by Labor Day?" The ...

AIST slams independent director quota

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... Garcia added that the decision to appoint non-aligned directors should be made by the fund, not the government, saying the focus should be exclusively on better outcomes for members.

ASIC warns consumers about NRAS property ads

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned consumers about advertising that promotes the use of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) to invest in residential properties through the National Rental Affordability Scheme ...