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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics are expected to release the results of an independent technical review of its Labour Force figures. Meanwhile, the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey and the National Australia ...

SPAA "disappointed" by the FSI's SMSF borrowing recommendations

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... borrowing for limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) by superannuation funds. Graeme Colley, SPAA director of technical and professional standards told Financial Standard that they were initially surprised that changes to the LRBA legislation ...

Boost impact investing, says FSI

MARK SMITH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... for outcomes. It can also benefit not-for-profits by diversifying their funding sources and helping them to develop technical expertise in benchmarking and measuring outcomes, as well as improving governance and accountability," the report said. Murray ...

ATO cold calling to test SMSF trustees

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... knowledge and restricting their ability to operate the fund if they fail. Legal document provider Topdocs said in a technical article that "examples have arisen where the ATO has refused to issue the [Australian business number] ABN because at least ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... response to the request of the Governing Council, ECB staff and the relevant Eurosystem committees have stepped up the technical preparations for further measures, which could, if needed, be implemented in a timely manner. Perhaps the super one's still ...

SMSF court case highlights penalty uncertainties

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... cooperated to solve the issue. Commenting on the case, SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) director of technical and professional standards Graeme Colley said: "I see this case as being quite serious because of the number of breaches ...

Perpetual hires senior investment specialist

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
Perpetual Investments has appointed a senior investment specialist to provide technical product and asset class investment support to advisers. James Holt will join Perpetual in early December from Zurich, where he has served as an investment specialist ...

Murray takes aim at industry culture

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... system, can I trust this institution?'" In improving systems, Murray said "human systems" are far more important than technical systems. "We put enormous effort every day to ensure that machines, which don't have an opinion, are working properly... but ...

Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... interests involved. "We are not acting on the advice of the big banks at all. I do readily concede that this is a highly technical area. It is an area in which there are vested commercial interests and vested political interests which if I may say so ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... wait a few days. He labelled the move "reckless and irresponsible." He said that "even Labor admitted that there were technical issues that needed to be fixed in the first FoFA" and added that "if it goes to its conclusion, all of these changes will ...