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A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
He's either really brave or truly spaced out after smoking some heavy stuff. One thing's for sure though, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Australia Adam Boyton has made the headlines with his fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... and Fortescue Metals 17 cents higher at $6.19. Among the big four banks, ANZ was 18 cents higher at $32.00, Commonwealth Bank was 15 cents higher at $75.33, Westpac was 20 cents higher at $33.51 and NAB was down 14 cents at $34.40. Shares in steel product ...

NAB reports $1.4 billion net profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
National Australia Bank (NAB) has reported unaudited net profits of $1.4 billion and unaudited cash earnings of $1.55 billion for the December quarter. The latter figure represented a 7% rise from the corresponding period, and was 2% above the quarterly ...

GenYs shy away from independent, professional advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... Savings & Debt Barometer (NSDB) found that 36% of GenYs relied on family and friends for financial advice and 33% would use a bank. Only 14% would use an accountant and even less than that, 13%, would ask a financial adviser for help. The reason was ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... the grouping put on paper an explicit growth target. For two, three of the world's biggest central banks - the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) - were already acting to ensure growth is assured even before the pledge by guiding forward expectations ...

S&P DJI eyes aligned advice groups with new role

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... a move to tap into the aligned financial advice dealer groups with its exchange-traded fund (ETF) indices. Until now the bank-aligned advice sector has proved difficult for ETF providers to access, as ETFs compete with many of the managed fund products ...

ATO doing a good job on SMSFs: Cooper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is rising to the challenge of efficiently regulating the self-managed superannuation sector, according to Challenger's chairman of retirement income Jeremy Cooper. Cooper said that, contrary to perceptions that it ...

FoFA changes go too far diluting conflicted rem: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... according to ISA include the general advice exemption "which will allow commissions to be paid to advisers, call centre staff and bank tellers for promoting products including super, complex products and even leveraged products when providing advice." ...

AMP launches integrated wealth app

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... platform, as well as other investments and direct shares not related to AMP. The product includes SMS notifications relating AMP Bank account balance, an ATM locator, internal and external bank transfers and ability to consolidate super accounts. It ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... bad, it's bad (you know it). Just stop whatever you're doing and sell. But Kim Eng Securities strategist Andrew Sullivan and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch economists Ting Lu and Xiaojia Zhi think that the numbers were likely distorted by the Lunar New ...