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Associations need to raise standards themselves: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, has played down any chance of ramping up regulation over the financial planning industry and has urged key industry associations to take raising standards into their own hands. Opening the financial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
The Australian share market should open weaker again with the potential for another sharp decline as commodity prices continued to unwind, opening up the chance for further profit taking in the resources sector. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June ...

Regulatory reform next on the agenda: Treasury

In a speech to the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners conference, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce said the key issues for the industry and the Government in the short term were revising the regulatory environment ...

Kingsway Taitz launches new locally based hedge fund administrator

Kingsway Taitz has opened its doors as a new hedge fund administrator, aiming to plug a service gap in the market for locally-based fund managers. According to managing director, Brian Taitz, the gap is that local hedge fund managers sometimes have ...

More direct property and an RSE for MTAA Super

MTAA Super has bought a 50 per cent stake in The Met Centre at 60 Margaret Street in Sydney's CBD, while it has also just achieved its RSE license. MTAA bought the commercial building, that is also half owned by Mirvac Group, for $179.25 million from ...

Christian super goes public

Christian Super is opening its doors to the public and is promoting its 'fully ethical' structure as its point of differentiation in the market. "Opening the fund to the Christian public is a key component of our long-term strategy. Where previously ...

Talk to us and let's make FSR simpler: Chris Pearce

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Chris Pearce, threw down the gauntlet today, asking ASIC to pass the industry's message back to the Government and promising to cut back the regulatory "red tape" in financial services. Speaking at an ASIC regulation ...

Super choice information overload

ASFA celebrated Valentine's Day this year with the message that super choice has been a non-event that has lead to information overload. This is despite ASFA's own research revealing that already nearly one in 10 fund members are likely to exercise ...

ARF and STA to merge into $18bn fund

After year-long discussions, industry fund super heavyweights ARF and STA are set to confirm that their merger is going ahead, creating a new fund with over one million members and more than $18 billion in assets under management. An announcement was ...

Slow death of annual reports: CSA

A recent survey has found that the number of investors reading annual reports is on the decline, suggesting company shareholders are either getting their information elsewhere or are 'voting with their feet'. A survey by Chartered Secretaries Australia ...