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When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
The global economy will be better this year than last, but troubles in the Eurozone and the waning power of Abenomics mean investors will find better odds in the US and China, chief economists said at a Financial Standard forum last week. The videos ...

AFA GenXt roadshow connects knowledge and performance

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... performance "Education and professional standards are at an inflection point. GenXt has a heritage of not only academic, technical and formal education but also developing how that's practically applied. Whether you are a young adviser or a career changer ...

AFA announces record enrolments for new curriculum

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... client experience optimisation. Fox argued that education standards have to reflect "practical advice outcomes". "The technical knowledge is an important part," he said, "but the ability to create advice that deals with the non-technicalA demands of ...

BetaShares names chief operating officer

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... chief operating officer from CitiCorp. Debbie Bennett has extensive experience in financial services, most recently as technical sales manager at CitiCorp. She has also held senior management positions at RBC Investor Services and J.P. Morgan. The company ...

MLC partners with SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... events. MLC and SPAA will also work together on research and trustee initiatives to benefit the SMSF industry. MLC head of technical and development Keiran McIlwain said: "This commitment will provide more of our advisers with market leading training ...

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 ...