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Countplus misses profit guidance

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
Countplus failed to achieve its profit guidance, revealing a 1.7% drop in its net profit after tax (NPAT) due to the sale of a poor performing business and the restructure of another. In its full year 2014 results announcement to the ASX, Countplus ...

A quarter of global instos plan to grow alternatives investment teams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... ever more important part of investor portfolios -over 35% of investors in each of the four main alternative asset classes plan to increase their allocations over the longer term. Only 4% of investors surveyed have decreased the size of their alternative ...

Adviser jailed for blowing client funds on fast cars

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
An adviser who defrauded investors out of $1 million to rent sports cars and buy a house has been jailed for more than five years following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Carlo Cini, a former director ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
"What do you know about medicine?" This was what the doctor I consulted asked me when I asked for a stronger dose of antibiotics to rid me of the bacterial bugs that have invaded my body a few months back. Well doc, I may not know about medicine as ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... intensifying debate on how much the labour market has tightened and how that would impact inflation and the timing of the Fed's plan to raise benchmark interest rates. Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities, said the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
The largest fall by BHP shares in five months is dragging the share market lower. After confirming plans to offload its aluminium, manganese, nickel and silver assets into a new company, BHP shares fell heavily, dropping $1.56, or 3.9 per cent, to $38.12 ...

Advisers to study for 200 hours under TASA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Planners registered as tax financial advisers with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) will have to undertake at least 200 hours of study covering Australian taxation and commercial law. Advisers who are members or are seeking membership of a professional ...

Licensees must be more open to social media: AFA

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
Licensees that allow advisers to be active on social media could soon be more appealing to advisers according the Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox. Speaking on a panel at the AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit on the Gold Coast ...

Greens slam CBA executives pay rise

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
Top Commonwealth Bank (CBA) executives should have frozen their salaries or even taken a pay cut while the compensation process for thousands of victims of poor financial advice remains ongoing, Greens Senator Peter Wish-Wilson said. "It is not a good ...

Mercer reveals confronting life expectancy research

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
New mortality rate research showing white collar workers can expect to live well beyond the average life expectancy highlights the challenge of achieving a comfortable retirement. Mercer's analysis into the mortality rates of public sector pensioners ...