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New planners lack listening skills

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Research from Deakin University has found that recently qualified financial planners are deficient in listening skills and lack the required knowledge to formulate a plan for those approaching retirement. The Deakin University research looked at 162 ...

Top insurers join with IFF to help with mental health

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
The job of a super fund trustee is to help boost retirement savings and one way to do this is do help members live long enough to spend it, which is why the Industry Funds Forum (IFF) mental health campaign is so important. If it helps the bottom-line ...

Super tax changes could boost SMSFs: MultiPort

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
Multiple super accounts may seem inefficient, but for others they are actually a legitimate strategy if properly implemented. Philip La Greca, technical services director for MultiPort, said superannuation investors trying manage tax on benefits for ...

Courts continue to unwind Westpoint mess

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
The Federal Court has ordered the winding up of 14 companies associated with Norman Carey and the Westpoint group. Ruling on an application made by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Federal Court ordered the winding up ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... The Australian stock market closed the day in negative territory, with a fall in the big miners dragging the bourse into the red. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 1.5 points to 5465.2, while the all ordinaries gave up three points to 5450.6. NEW YORK ...

Don't forget to lock and back-up: Symantec

Security software solutions Symantec has urged companies to ensure their IT systems are secure and backed-up over the Christmas break because the holiday season is also the peak time when they are most vulnerable to financial fraud. With many people ...

Patersons' poor compliance under review

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on specialist stockbroker Patersons Securities to review its monitoring and supervision of staff after it found that two Patersons employees may have risked client funds through ...

DIY funds tail the experts

The latest survey from specialist self-managed super fund (SMSF) admin provider Multiport show that SMSFs have returned 10.1 per cent in the year to September, marginally below the returns of a comparable super fund option, the Rainmaker/Selecting Super ...

Devote 20 per cent or more to direct property: ADPIA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
The Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) said investors should be allocating at least 20 per cent of their portfolios to direct property. An analysis of asset class performance data for the last 10 and 20 years, undertaken by Atchison ...

IPO activity at record levels: Deloitte

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
A Deloitte report has found that an expected spike in initial public offer (IPO) activity in December will push the number of IPOs this calendar year to record levels, however the total value of all public floats will be virtually half the 2005 figure. ...