SPAA backs ASIC move to clarify wholesale investor test

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The SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) welcomes the decision by ASIC to clarify the working of the wholesale investor test and how it relates to SMSF professionals and trustees.... Read more continue reading

Lending hits 6½-year high. Petrol at 8-month low

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Lending finance; Weekly Petrol Prices Lending soars. Total lending finance soared by 7.6 per cent in June, underpinned by a 12.1 per cent lift in business lending. Total new lending in... Read more continue reading

MGP beefs up sales team, records bumper inflows

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Leading managed account provider managedaccounts.com.au, a subsidiary of listed company Managed Accounts Holdings Limited , has bolstered its sales and relationship management team in response to growing demand for its... Read more continue reading

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 8 August, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The share market correction continued over the last week with a whole range of issues weighing on confidence including Russian retaliatory... Read more continue reading

La Trobe Financial partners with Lifeline to save lives

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Over the last 12 months, Lifeline has answered an extraordinary 700,000 calls from Australians in crisis and at risk of suicide, however over 160,000 who were calling for help were... Read more continue reading

ASIC’s statement on wholesale and retail investors and SMSFs

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ASIC has clarified how it will apply the wholesale investor test to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). This has been an area of ongoing legal uncertainty. The recent Senate Economics References... Read more continue reading

Australian superannuation returns third highest in the world

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Research for the Financial Services Council released yesterday shows Australia has the third highest superannuation fund returns in the world. The research was prepared for the FSC by Deloitte Access Economics... Read more continue reading

Women rate a secure job no. 1 for financial security

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AFA’s 2013 Female Excellence in Advice Award winner urges women to protect it A survey by Australia’s largest life insurer TAL has found that women rate a good job as... Read more continue reading

Australia needs to build a strong financial services export industry

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Australia needs to significantly grow its financial services export industry over the next decade to ensure future employment and economic growth,  Greg Cooper, CEO of Schroder Investment Management Australia and... Read more continue reading

Fortnum completes multi-million dollar deal to buy-out ANZ

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Fortnum Financial Group Limited has successfully acquired ANZ Banking Group’s 20 per cent stake in the company in a multi-million dollar deal that catapults it to one of Australia’s largest... Read more continue reading