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Macq appoints new COIN head

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
Kirk Pitman, head of Macquarie's mortgage intermediary investment team, will replace Robert McCabe as Macquarie's head of product and technology for COIN Financial Software, effective October 1. McCabe moves into a new role within the Macquarie Banking ...

Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... the median household income dropped by 2.3%. Wait till they read the Reuters report that around 82% of Uncle Sam's children plan to spend less this holiday season compared with last year. Is it any wonder then that end of 2011 targets for the S&P 500 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... European stocks have closed higher after seesawing wildly amid unsubstantiated rumours that Germany and France had a new plan for Greece and that China was in talks to buy Italian bonds. In foreign exchange trade, the euro ended down slightly against ...

BlackRock Aus share fund on hold as manager retires

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
Mark Himpoo, manager of the BlackRock Australian Share Portfolio, has announced plans to retire, according to Morningstar. Himpoo, who was appointed as lead manager of the fund in 2001, made the announcement on September 6 but will remain with the fund ...

ASIC surveillance sharpens focus on AFS licensees

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
Financial services licensees must effectively monitor business models for possible conflicts of interest and prioritise training and supervision of advisers, said ASIC, as part of plans to raise standards in the advice industry and hold gatekeepers ...

Planning software's big five rated

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... planners shifting their focus to higher value clients as an outcome of FOFA." The research also found that 42% of advisers plan to provide single-issue advice more often for fast business turnover. XPLAN users were quickest in providing single-issue ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
Seen on Bloomberg this morning: "Greece Default Risk Jumps to 98%" (over the next five years). Duh! I don't know what financial markets have been smoking but as far I'm concerned Greek's been cactus ever since it's debt-to-GDP ratio hit 140% and real ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... up, with Bank of America climbing 1.0 per cent after saying it would eliminate 30,000 jobs as part of a broad restructuring plan that would cut $US5 billion from its annual costs by 2014. Bond prices were almost unchanged. The yield on the 10-year Treasury ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available today

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
Financial Standard's latest edition of the iPadA(R) app is available from today. The app allows iPadA(R) users to download the tablet edition of the Financial Standard newspaper. This edition we feature a roundup of the latest news on the Future of ...

Future Fund not for sale: Wong

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... government was forecasting a $3.5 billion surplus. This morning Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann said a "secret plan" had been revealed during a Senate Estimates hearing when questioning Finance Department head, David Tune. Senator Cormann ...