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AFA urges Independents to help change FOFA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... include the removal of retrospective fee disclosure requirements and opt-in, to "improve the clarity and certainty" of best interest, to make sure the ban on conflicted remuneration is not applied retrospectively, and a delay in the FOFA start date to ...

Franklin Templeton plans retail growth

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... McKay. "The global growth strategy is a highly concentrated global equity strategy benchmark unaware and we're seeing more interest from advisers in those types of strategies and from researchers as well in those types of strategies... than with the ...

APRA accepts EU from former Trio director

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
APRA has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a sixth former director of Trio Capital. John Godfrey was a non-executive director of Trio between February 2005 and June 2007, as well as being chair of the board from June 2005 to February 2007. Godfrey ...

FSC makes move on fund governance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... will cover the independence of superannuation chairpersons and directors, the disclosure of remuneration, conflicts of interest, environmental, social and corporate governance considerations and proxy voting. More specifically, super funds must have ...

FOFA makes assumptions on churning: Synchron

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... slammed elements of FOFA, claiming it will ultimately lead to advisers being penalised when acting in their client's best interest. Synchron has criticised two particular elements it says relate to churning, including a two-year commission responsibility ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... we know, we know? Because of what RBA Governor Glenn Stevens said only yesterday - the day his Board decided to keep interest rates unchanged at 4.25%. "Recent information is consistent with the expectation that the world economy will grow at a below-trend ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... points to 2,000.36. Sydney fell 1.37 per cent, or 58.3 points, to end at 4,204.7 after the Australian central bank kept interest rates on hold as expected. Hong Kong slumped 2.16 per cent, or 459.06 points, to 20,806.25 and Shanghai shed 1.41 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... expectations of an $8.1 billion deficit. Still to come, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was due to hand down its monthly interest rate decision at 1430 AEDT. Market economists were expecting the central bank to leave the cash rate unchanged at 4.25 ...

Global govt bonds downgrade: Towers Watson

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... supply while the stock of safe assets reduced due to the European sovereign debt and US mortgage crises. "Intermediate interest rates have fallen to very low levels. We think they now offer a very low risk premium over cash and/or are discounting a high ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... going forward. Wait, there's more. There's still Europe of course. The ECB's LTRO Mark-II is working its wonders there. Interest rates on 10-year Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French bonds are going down. German ones were up a bit though. But this ...