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Karara restructures for Aus eq focus

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Karara Capital will be a fully employee-owned business after it reshuffled its company structure to focus on its Australian equities expertise. Karara announced yesterday that its key investment staff will continue to manage Aussie equities. The new ...

US resi housing collapse hits CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
The $296 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has suffered a 35 per cent write-down in the market value of its $15 billion residential housing portfolio. Latest figures from CalPERS' assessment of its housing portfolio showed ...

New resources, fresh ads for advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
The Financial Planning Association is helping advisers battle the financial crisis with a new resource centre for its members and a "Value of Advice" campaign targeted towards consumers. The FPA announced today that it had launched the Market Volatility ...

Thumbs up for high conviction: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
High conviction fund managers look set to reap the rewards of a sluggish Aussie equities market, according to new research by van Eyk. Soaring fee levels have generally discouraged and disappointed investors in the high conviction space, compared to ...

SMSF trustee fails sole purpose test

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
SMSF trustee Gerard Karl Little has been charged by ASIC for failing the sole purpose test after he obtained early access to funds and pocketed $685,000 in commissions. Little, of Castlecrag, New South Wales, appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court ...

Market Wrap - Midday

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket was over four per cent lower at noon following heavy losses in the banking sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 177.4 points, or 4.32 per cent, at 3,930.4 while the broader All Ordinaries index dropped ...

QIC changes infrastructure tact

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Indiscriminate and forced selling of infrastructure debt has QIC positioning itself to pounce on discounted opportunities in the infrastructure debt market. QIC, which has over $70 billion in funds under management, is slightly shifting its focus on ...

High school fin literacy for Aussies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Insurance and super will soon be explained to high school students via a new government and ASIC-led financial literacy resource. Senator Nick Sherry, minister of superannuation and corporate law and Tony D'Aloisio, Australian Securities and Investments ...

Perpetual mortgage funds reopen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Perpetual has reopened applications for three of its $1.7 billion mortgage funds after an 18 day suspension to all its mortgage and income funds. The fund manager announced yesterday that it is now accepting applications for the Monthly Income Fund ...

Australian Child Care revamps super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Bali trip promotions, a new administrator and upgraded insurance cover - 2008 has been a busy year for the Australian Child Care Super Fund as it overhauls its overall fund structure. Throughout this year, the little publicised $62 million fund had ...