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Tasplan and Quadrant mull merger

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Tasmanian superannuation funds Quadrant fund Tasplan will investigate a merger and have entered into a Heads of Agreement. The two funds will consider whether there would be an improved provision of superannuation services to the members and employers ...

Maybe slowing, definitely distorted, more likely rebalancing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Ayy-yay-yay-yay-yay! Here we go again. Weak economic reports out of China have again put a question mark about its economy and by extension, the economy of the world. Oh sowee Virginia, I stand corrected... it wasn't a question mark, China's headed ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after mixed performances on international markets on continued tension between Russia and and Ukraine, and disappointing economic data from China and Japan. At 0827 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price ...

market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Mining companies have dragged the sharemarket lower after weak Chinese trade data lead to a fall in commodity prices. Chinese import and export figures released on Saturday showed an unexpected trade deficit of $US22.98 billion ($A25.37 billion), vastly ...

Investors get conditional agreement against Great Southern

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Litigation funder Bentham IMF has reached a conditional settlement against the collapsed agricultural investment scheme Great Southern. According to a release on the ASX, the terms of the settlement remain confidential to the parties and are to be the ...

Allan Gray Aussie fund listed on six platforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Allan Gray Australia Opportunity Fund doubled in size during 2013 and is available for advisers through six wrap platforms. The fund was listed on Asgard, BT Wrap, Colonial First Wrap, Macquarie Wrap and netwealth. The Australia Opportunity Fund ...

SPAA calls for reduction in SMSF levy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Australian Taxation Office's (ATOs) annual levy on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) should be reduced in the May budget, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). SPAA's senior manager, technical and policy ...

Market wrap open

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Australian share market has opened lower in the wake of disappointing Chinese trade data and escalating concern over Ukraine. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the lower open was "a no-brainer". "There's just a raft of negative factors just weighing ...

Asia Funds Passport on shaky ground

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Asia Funds Passport will never get off the ground because the majority of fund managers in the region are already aligning their products with European UCITS standards, according to EY Asia-Pacific and EMEIA asset management leader Roy Stockell. ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Ho-hum. This is how I felt early Saturday morning (or was it afternoon?). No Virginia, it wasn't because I had one drink too many the night before - still, I invoke my right to remain silent. 'Twas because that all-important, that mother of all eco ...