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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... $34.21 and NAB was up 17 cents to $34.77. But, ANZ's $5.2 billion cash profit for the nine months to June 30 was not enough to stop its shares falling 19 cents, or 0.58 per cent, to $32.55 at the open. The big resource players were stronger. BHP Billiton ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... words to Junior, former US President George Bush Jr: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." "There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know ...

Licensee transparency far more urgent than advice register

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... Fox told Financial Standard. "Until we get some honesty in that, the bad apples can keep circulating around and nothing can stop them," he added. He revealed that the AFA is in talks with several dealer groups regarding this issue and warned that at ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... down by 0.2% in the June quarter and down by 0.1% in the first. So with another biggie. France's real GDP slowed to a full stop (zero growth) in the first quarter - second quarter figures not out yet - after a small 0.2% increase in the December quarter. ...

Do not take adviser loyalty for granted: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
Platform providers should not take financial adviser's loyalty for granted, as new research shows that planners are exercising choice when it comes to platforms. The number of advisers using a platform due to the dealer group's preferences has fallen ...

Unmet SMSF advice needs a boon for advisers

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
More than 286,000 self-managed super funds (SMSFs) have unmet advice needs, representing a huge opportunity for financial advisers, according to new research from Investment Trends. SMSFs who say they have unmet advice needs are prepared to pay up to ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Reports that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned ...

Advisers eye opportunity in identity theft protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
Financial advisers could play a key role in protecting clients against the rise of identity theft and data fraud, Zurich Australia said. As many as 45% of financial advisers feel that offering clients protection from identity theft could add value to ...

YBR adopts cloud-based planner software

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has migrated all its core business processes to a cloud-based platform to keep pace with technology changes. Software platform NetSuite has replaced all the previous systems, including those in the financial management division ...

Govt begins long-awaited retirement income review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
The government has launched its much-anticipated review of Australia's underdeveloped retirement income industry with the release of a comprehensive discussion paper. The 21-page paper discusses measures to overhaul the entire regulatory regime of the ...