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Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... has to factor in the risk of what happens to the member's account balance over their lifetime. ASFA's fresh calls for an easy-to-understand industry wide risk labelling comes after two years after campaigning against using words such as "defensive" and ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... recklessness that got us into this mess in the first place," said President Obama. "Some of it was the result of an era of easy credit, when millions of Americans borrowed beyond their means, bought homes they couldn't afford, and assumed that housing ...

AIA expands product suite

AIA AUSTRALIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... quickly," he said. "[The firm] remains focussed on supporting advisers to gain a share of this growth by continuing to make it easy for them to do business with us and we continue to look for ways to enhance the underwriting and technology experience ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... would be in the following four years. The Greenspan legacy on monetary policy was breaking from the Taylor Rule to provide easy money, and thus inflate bubbles. Not only did you continue that policy when you took control of the Fed, but you supported ...

BT adds 33 new funds to Wrap Essentials

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... process are being eagerly anticipated by our advisers," he said. Head of BT Wrap, Chris Freeman, said adviser demand for easy access to investment essentials for their 'wealth accumulator' and Gen X clients has driven the platform review. "Given the ...

Yamashita's treasure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... the physical metal itself. Futures, forward or options contracts, or Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) or stock certificates are easy to fold and store under the bed, in a cookie jar or in a safety deposit box. But how do you store tonnes of gold? You pay a ...

The downside of Ripoll

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... law expert. Michael Peters, business law lecturer from the University of New South Wales, said the industry will find it easy in theory but difficult in practice to "codify" planner fiduciary duties. He warned the worst-case scenario is that independent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... Some analysts are concerned that the huge rally since March of some 60 per cent for the broad market has been the result of easy money from the Federal Reserve's near-zero interest rates. This, according to some analysts has ignited a massive "carry ...

Faith in fee for service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... a client was fair value, then it would be okay to the client and once [financial planners] made the mental shift, it was easy." The practice used role-playing strategies with their financial planners so they could practice how to approach the upfront ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... renewed weakening - in housing and behaved consumer price inflation. Both of which bolster the argument that the Fed will be easy for how much it takes and for how long it takes. Perhaps investors, traders and speculators are hunkering down, cashing ...