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Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... closed 2.5% off, the S&P ended 2.9% lower and the Nasdaq gave up 2.0% -- after Big Ben gave them what they wanted. If this isn't a twisted response, I don't know what is. Following its 2-day FOMC deliberations the Fed announced that, "To support a stronger ...

SMSFs feeling the age gap

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
The ageing demographics of SMSF trustees may prove to be the real issue for the sector, but that isn't holding it back with rising growth rates and surging fund numbers, heard delegates at a Women in Super event yesterday. Speaking at the event, Sarah ...

ISN submission targets advice requirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... called for stronger legal requirements around financial advice and better consumer protection. The Industry Super Network (ISN) has requested that the Government strengthen legal requirements and professional standards for the benefit of the advice industry ...

Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... skilled manager to invest around that then both of those are great choices but at least you've started with something that isn't saying please lend to the US for nothing." Another opportunity that Britton was discussing with Australian clients while ...

Local instos eye US equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Speaking this morning at an investment forum and later to Financial Standard, Swanson said even though the US equity market isn't the cheapest in the world, the characteristics of it to do well are pretty impressive. "Yes, European equities are cheaper ...

Retail super fund commissions revealed

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... is inappropriate to grandfather commissions paid to financial planners where no advice is being provided," said Whiteley. "ISN analysis of Roy Morgan Research suggests more than 2 million Australians are in this boat - paying money for nothing." Under ...

Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... on average each year over the past two decades. In other words, without a housing construction productivity revolution it isn't going to happen. And if the odds on a construction building revolution weren't long enough already, the housing skills shortage ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... encourage consumers to keep borrowing and spending throughout the rest of the economy seemed to reinforce the arguments. But isn't this all bunkum because it was the mining industry that truly saved Australia? Actually no, at least according to Treasury. ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... and their economies aren't growing fast enough to generate the much needed tax revenue to help pay down this debt? Lagarde isn't sure either. "So there are no easy answers. But that does not mean there are no options," she wrote. "For the advanced economies ...

FOFA divides on commission

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... positive measure for the SMSF sector," said Andrea Slattery, chief executive, SPAA. Meanwhile, the Industry Super Network (ISN) has applauded FOFA, saying it will put an end to super members paying for advice they don't receive with opt-in and will build ...