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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker as concerns about higher oil prices and a mixed lead from base metals create negative momentum for the domestic bourse. With stockmarkets in both Europe and the US ending weaker overnight, higher ...

ASIC shadow shopping: the good, the bad and the ugly

... recommending in-house or associated products. And another problem highlighted concerned the issuing of Statement of Advice (SOA). The survey revealed only 20 per cent of consumers received proper disclosure of the costs and consequences of switching. ...

Daily economic update

The US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) began its two-day meeting last night - the first meeting under the chairmanship of Ben Bernanke. There is almost a unanimous expectation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by 25 basis points ...

Daily economic update

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) voted 8-1 to keep interest rates unchanged for the seventh month in a row. The minutes of the MPC March meeting revealed that the almost unanimous decision to keep interest rates steady at 4.5 per ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2006
The Australian share market should open slightly weaker, although another raft of domestic earnings should set the overall tone for the domestic bourse. US stocks are providing a slightly positive lead but weakness in base and precious metals, as well ...

ING software roll-out to reduce the SoA burden

ING is set to roll-out a new online limited advice solution to reduce the Statement of Advice burden for advisers. Using a customised version of XPLAN's financial planning software, ING will launch the online limited advice solution as part of its substantial ...

ASIC too soft on AFSL applicants: Aud Gen

ASIC has issued Financial Services Licenses (FSLs) in a rush and without properly inspecting applications from a number of financial planners, dealers and insurance brokers, according to a new Auditor-General report. The report by the national Auditor-General ...

FSR changes usher era of less but better compliance

... crucial changes to the FSR. Among these were reducing the frequency that financial advisers have to issue a Statement of Advice (SoA) to clients, exempting basic deposit products or similar such as Cash Management Trusts (CMTs) from some compliance rules ...

AXA launches pay-as-you-go adviser software

... paraplanning. He added that IWL's VisiPlan and VisiWeb programs will also feed directly into the group's Statement of Advice (SOA) generation tool, which again cuts processing time. And in more good news, AXA also announced twin initiatives designed ...

ASIC launches consumer guide about planners

... together the FPA. The regulator's second development is its ongoing work with the industry to simplify statements of advice (SOA). ASIC's Chairman, Jeffrey Lucy, said the SOA changes are well under way. "We're also working with the financial services ...