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Mortgage funds' phantom lifeline

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Rudd government's plan to shore up confidence in mortgage funds is a political master stroke because while it sounds terrific, it commits the government to nothing, will take months to have any impact and won't put dollars on the tables of retirees ...

Snowball taps mining rich towns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Snowball financial planning subsidiary, Outlook Financial Solutions and Big Sky Credit Union signed a joint venture agreement to create Big Sky Financial Solutions and tap into the latter firm's cashed up mining and construction members. Big Sky Financial ...

Grant Samuel Epoch tops global shares survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Grant Samuel Epoch Shareholder Yield fund demonstrates the merits of free cash flow (FCF) based investing after it trumped other global equities managers in one of the roughest months in stockmarket history. No doubt the month of October will reveal ...

FPWS unveils new SMA service

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... "[Managed accounts] are highly tax efficient, provide direct ownership of shares and can be cheaper than managed funds, master trusts and wrap accounts," said Matthew Murphie, managing director of First Prudential Markets. FPWS, along with OneVue Limited ...

Blue chip shares open to retail

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... investments are held until maturity, and the potential to earn up to 10 per cent per annum from the FRM Diversified III Master Fund. J.P. Morgan vice president, equity derivatives and structured products David Jones-Prichard said the volatile markets ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Heads, you lose US$1 trillion. Tails, you lose US$700 billion. This is the stark choice that stares the US Congress in the face after seeing the market pandemonium that followed their rejection of the Treasury/Federal Reserve's bail-out package. Relative ...

Adam Smith hires portfolio manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
Boutique Australian equities investment manager Adam Smith Asset Management has appointed Stephen Atkinson as portfolio manager within its small cap Australian equities team. Atkinson has been a portfolio manager at MMC Asset Management, Credit Suisse ...

ASIC freezes $1m investor funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... the Supreme Court of New South Wales. The court order freezes offshore securities trading accounts in the Secured Bond Master Fund scheme, which is made up of funds from over 40 Australian investors. These investors are believed to have given more than ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
A number of public sector and industry super funds, multi managers and master trusts have pumped a combined $370 million into a specialist Apostle fund that aims to capitalise on the undervalued US senior bank loans market. The Apostle Loomis Sayles ...

A cyber home for advisers: MLC

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
MLC is looking to make its website a one-stop shop for advisers looking to do business online. Steve Barnes, head of online services and advice platform at MLC, said that adviser feedback of the new look MLC website unveiled in May has so far been positive. ...