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Planners lack social media commitment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
Planners and dealer groups are lacking social media commitment but there is plenty they can do about that today to start existing in this space, heard a packed and diverse crowd at a Brisbane planner session. Rachel Staggs, founder and chief executive ...

IMAP: Make changes early to get FOFA ready

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... readiness is to make changes ahead of time. "The sleeper in the industry's debate around FOFA is the issue of client 'best interest'. Advisers must be ready not only for a fee-for-service model but also to be insulated against possible litigation. We ...

ACCC gives CBA Count acquisition the go-ahead

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
Shareholders at Count Financial Limited will meet in Sydney next week to discuss the schemes of arrangement required for Commonwealth Bank's takeover of the firm. This follows yesterday's decision from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... hoped to raise between three billion and four billion euros ($A4 billion to $A5.37 billion) with the bond sale and the interest rate paid is the highest since the creation of the euro single currency, according to Dow Jones Newswires. France, too, was ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... Just a thought... or maybe not. Remember that it was also the German Bundesbank - and its insistence of maintaining high interest rates in the early 1990s - that unshackled the old exchange rate mechanism (ERM)? The Germans have shown that they're able ...

Indonesia readies for bond rating upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... local buyers and investors domiciled in the Middle East and Malaysia. Sukuk are bond-like certificates that don't pay interest but where investors take an ownership stake in the project the bonds are financing and investors' coupon payments are funded ...

Flight to quality boosts PIMCO inflows

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
Retail investors are seeking refuge from volatile equity markets by increasingly investing in fixed interest funds, according to bond manager PIMCO's net fund inflows. The investment management firm said monthly amounts invested in its funds have risen ...

Political debate defers FOFA clarity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... reforms before MPs (though most believe this is likely to happen between the 21 and 24 November) with issues such as best interest sure to come under further scrutiny from industry groups. The Senate Economics Committee report is due on March 14, as ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... 2.00 per cent, or 387.54 points, at 18,960.90 and Shanghai ended 2.48 per cent, or 62.80 points, lower at 2,466.96. The interest rate that Italy must pay on its 10-year bonds jumped back above the 7.0 per cent level seen as unsustainable for the country ...

Research houses in regulatory spotlight

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
ASIC has put down proposals to completely separate research houses from their business units to ensure conflicts of interest are properly managed. The consultation paper was developed over concerns about the independence and quality of research reports. ...