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Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
The State Street Investor Confidence Index has risen for the second consecutive month. Up 5.4 points from December's revised reading of 81.4 to reach 86.8, State Street Global Markets, the investment research arm of the financial services giant, said ...

CFP ranks to top 150,000 in 2013

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
The Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), owner of the international Certified Financial Planner certification program, reported that the global number of CFP professionals jumped from 139,818 at year-end 2011 to 147,822 12 months later. At the ...

Trapnell rejects 'no way out' stance by licencees

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
You can check-in any time you like but you can never leave: Synchron director Don Trapnell has used the immortal lines from the classic 1970s Hotel California hit to reaffirm his rejection of licensee heavy-handedness dealing with advisers who want ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
Betterer and betterer. That's the feeling one gets when one scours through the macro stats and surveys released over the past 24 hours. Never mind reports of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowering its world growth forecast anew - down to 3.5% ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 4,793. No major economic news is expected on Friday. In equities ...

HOSTPLUS to become a PST

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Once its plans to become a pooled superannuation trust (PST) are complete later this year, HOSTPLUS will be the first Industry fund to allow SMSFs to invest in its underlying investment platform. As well as helping to keep costs down, HOSTPLUS CEO David ...

Cash rate falls good for property

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
If Australia's cash rate drops further a growing number of investors are expected to be attracted to unlisted property funds in the search better yields, said a property manager. General manager of property, mortgages and capital markets at Australian ...

Aussie equities to rise another 20% in 2013: Fidelity

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Cheap valuations, high dividend yields, a US and Chinese recovery and even history are on the side of Australian share market investors this year, according to Fidelity head of Australian equities Paul Taylor. With dividends reinvested, the Australian ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Tyndall Asset Management head of fixed income Roger Bridges has stressed that there is definitely not a bubble forming in the bond market. Current high prices and low yields have raised fears of capital losses within the asset class during 2013 but ...

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Well, well, well...what do you know? Over the past few weeks we've been keeping an eye on that other half of the US fiscal cliff - the budget spending cuts - and the lifting, or not, of the debt ceiling. That's been sorted (well, almost) last night ...