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14 July 2014 • By Tim Stewart • 1 min read

Govt consults on foreign pension fund tax

The government is moving to amend the managed investment trust (MIT) withholding tax regime in order to "attract and retain foreign investment in ...

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Standard Life backs mid-cap UK equities

Suggestions that UK mid-caps are expensive in comparison to larger companies are largely off the mark and could lead investors to miss out on valuable ...

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Brogden to depart FSC

FSC chief executive John Brogden will leave the Financial Services Council to head up another lobby group in December 2014. FSC chairman Greg ...

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AMP behind funeral bond commissions ban

KeyInvest, one of the largest providers of funeral bonds to financial planners, has acknowledged that pressure from AMP led it to remove commissions ...

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‘Bubble’ warning for global equities

Stock markets have performed “unrealistically well” since the GFC and there is a risk the situation could “explode”, says a finance academic

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Aussie investors bullish on global markets

Australian investor appetite for overseas assets remains strong, with the proportion of investors planning to increase their exposure rising from last ...

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Paul Howes moves to KPMG

Former Australian Workers Union national secretary Paul Howes has joined KPMG Australia.  Mr Howes has been appointed as a director of KPMG's ...

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Bloomberg acquires trading services firm

Financial information company Bloomberg announced yesterday that it has acquired trading support technologies company RTS Realtime Systems

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AMP Capital-managed properties offloaded

Eighteen New Zealand properties held in the AMP Capital Property Portfolio have been sold to the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board

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Govt forced to table FOFA regulations

Labor has successfully mustered the numbers to force the government into tabling the regulations that amend the FOFA regime. Labor won a Senate ...

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