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La Trobe mortgage fund scoops industry award

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
La Trobe Financial's Pooled Mortgages Option (PMO) has won the Money Magazine Gold Award for the Best Mortgage Fund in Australia for the fourth consecutive year. Chris Andrews, head of funds management at La Trobe Financial said: "This is another milestone ...

LGS wins Best Green Super Fund Award

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
Industry leader in responsible investment, Local Government Super (LGS) took home the Best Green Super Fund for 2013 at this year's Money Magazine 'Best of the Best' awards. Around half ($3.3 billion) of the Fund's total assets are in responsible investment ...

Financial advisers recognised for social media strategy

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
Financial adviser Charles Badenach from Shadforth Financial Group won this year's Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence (SMILEYS) Scholarship, at an award ceremony yesterday. Other awards winners included Aaron Zelman who ...

Frontier Advisors makes four new hires

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Frontier Advisors has made four new hires to its Melbourne office including Fraser Murray as a senior consultant to head up its equities research team. Murray joins from Ibbotson Associates, where he held the role as head of equities and property. He ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
"Is QE3 enough to save America's economy?" The Economist magazine posed this question to its readers over the weekend. So far, the nays have it - 78% of them think QE won't cut it - because according to those who commented: even Bernanke admitted that ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

Macquarie invests in mobile apps for advisers/brokers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
Macquarie is expanding access to its insights and information by further investing in range of mobile applications for its advisers and mortgage brokers. Following the successful launch of four mobile applications during the past year, Macquarie's long-running ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
If you have something better to do today do that, rather than expending your time reading what took place in financial markets overnight. It was more of the same -- the exact same suspenseful, seemingly endless wait for policymakers to deliver what ...

Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
Looks like some in Europe's back from their holidays - there's some stirring going on from there again. Germany's Der Spiegel magazine reported that the ECB plans to buy government bonds to place a cap on yields to a pre-set premium over German bunds. ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
Financial markets have again become Eurocentric - bobbing up and down on every blah that comes out of anybody who's somebody's lips. I don't think anybody could argue that Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is somebody. Thus, when he blahed to Germany's ...