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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
Australian stocks have opened flat, with market players sitting on the sidelines ahead of an interest rate decision from the central bank. Market players looked past a positive lead from Wall Street, where US stocks rallied strongly and commodities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
Australian stocks have opened flat, with market players sitting on the sidelines ahead of an interest rate decision from the central bank. Market players looked past a positive lead from Wall Street, where US stocks rallied strongly and commodities ...

BT wins award for 'Your World' tool

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... the terms 'financial planner' and 'financial adviser' have just passed through the Lower House, when additional best-interest tests will become mandatory and when there is real momentum in the industry's quest for professionalism,' Hall said. "This tool ...

RBA decisions decisions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... 'expert' forecasters forecast no change. Three months before that -- in February -- the Australian central bank kept interest rates unchanged when the overwhelming majority punted on a cut. There are other examples but you get the picture. Having said ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
Australian bond futures prices are higher ahead of the central bank's monthly interest rate decision. Nomura head of research Jon Linton said the local market would be focused on the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision announcement at 1430 AEST on ...

Government to hold public forums on Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
The Federal Minister for Superannuation Bill Shorten has encouraged interested parties to attend a public forum on the future Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability. The Gillard government announced its intention to create the Super Charter ...

APRA sets dates for ERF transitions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has published the final superannuation prudential standard SPS 450 Eligible Rollover Fund (ERF) Transitions together with the response to consultation. This prudential standard will take effect on ...

Planning firms mispriced on knowledge blacks spots

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... most common valuation applied to a sale of financial planning practice or client book is a multiple of earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) or a multiple of recurring revenue. Over the last three years, Wrightson said he has seen a significant range ...

Markets poised on knife-edge: Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... small bets, which collectively add up." More bullish commentators have argued that the collapse of bond yields and low interest rates are supportive of a 'great rotation' out of fixed income assets into equities and other more risky areas. However, Milligan ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) - which reduced tail risks in the market -- and the bank's reduction in interest rates early this month. But it could also be a case of the less heard and seen from the eurozone, the less worrisome its ...