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Advisers distracted by industry funds: RiskStore

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
Advisers have focused too much on industry funds and not enough on their own value proposition said the insurance professional development service, The Risk Store, in its latest newsletter. "Criticism of the industry funds' advertising tactics is possibly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... bond market. HONG KONG - Asian markets fell on renewed fears for the eurozone after Greece was dealt an ultimatum over its plan to hold a referendum on last week's deal to tackle the region's debt crisis. However, the euro bounced back from earlier lows ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
The Australian share market at noon on Thursday had reversed direction to be lower as investors considered how the continuing Greek debt crisis might unfold. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 21.4 points, or 0.51 per cent, at 4,163.2 ...

van Eyk adds UBS-HALO to the Blueprint Australian Shares Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
The addition of the UBS-HALO Australian Share Fund to van Eyk's Blueprint Australian Shares Fund is part of plans to move more of the fund into concentrated, high conviction strategies, according to the company. Head of ratings at van Eyk, Matthew Olsen ...

MLC internally promotes new group insurance GM

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
MLC has appointed its former head of finance for MLC Insurance, Megan Beer, to the role of general manager of group insurance. In her new role Beer will be responsible for leading the development and growth of the group insurance business. She is replacing ...

Congressmen agitate for US transaction tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... transaction tax that is already set to take effect from 2014. Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Peter DeFazio said they plan to introduce legislation that will impose a 3 basis point tax on financial transactions, one third the European rate, reported ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... consecutive trading day of losses as optimism evaporated about the eurozone debt deal after Greece's call for a referendum on the plan. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 48.3 points, or 1.14 per cent, at 4,184.6 points, while the broader All ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... client adviser Michael Heffernan said local investors had been spooked by Greece's call for a referendum on the debt rescue plan agreed to last week. "That takes a bit of the gloss off the interest rate cut yesterday," Mr Heffernan said. "It is just ...

Matrix continues planning member expansion

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
Independent Newcastle-based planning firm, PSI Investments, has joined Matrix Planning Solutions as a new member firm just two weeks after it signed a Sydney firm. PSI Investments was established over 20 years ago as part of the broader PSI Group and ...

OneVue eyes insto investor for global growth

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
Platform provider OneVue will select an institutionally aligned minority shareholder to join the OneVue Holdings register by February 2012, the group has announced. OneVue chief executive Connie McKeage said as part of the decision OneVue had taken ...