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Instreet launches income paying gold product

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013

La Trobe calls to end home loan risk fees

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
Risk fees charged by some non-bank lenders on home loans offer no benefits to consumers and should be stopped, according to La Trobe Financial chief executive Greg O'Neill. Risk fees, or equalisation fees as they are sometimes known, appeared as an ...

ASIC warns consumers about NRAS property ads

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned consumers about advertising that promotes the use of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) to invest in residential properties through the National Rental Affordability Scheme ...

AusSuper's in-house plan to save $150m

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
AustralianSuper has completed the first phase of its five-year plan to bring 30% of its investment management operations in house, including the addition of 23 new staff members. The industry fund said the first phase saw the "implementation of the ...

Magellan insists huge growth won't hamper returns

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Magellan Financial Group insists its investment process remains scalable in spite of an $11 billion rise in assets under management and a three and half fold increase in underlying profit in the last 12 months. At the company's recent annual general ...

Challenger reports big boost in annuities sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Challenger has reported a 31% boost in its life annuities sales over the last 12 months, suggesting a burgeoning demand for annuities in Australia's as-yet-underdeveloped annuities market. Challenger's life annuities sales for the September quarter ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Australian stocks have jumped to fresh five-year highs in response to gains on global stock markets on Friday night. The local market has climbed more than half a per cent to its higher level since mid 2008. "It looks like a good firm opening and that ...

Reinsurance specialist boosts Australian team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Global risk and reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter has expanded its Australian operations team with six new hires and new risk advice solutions. The new appointments will be based in Sydney and will allow the firm to expand its offering from a traditional ...

ASIC acted only when claims hit "tsunami level"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
A former employee of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has condemned the fact that the regulator acted only when the volume of complaints "reached tsunami level." In a submission to the Senate inquiry on ASIC's performance ...

ASX launches S&P/ASX200 VIX futures

STAFF WRITERS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
The ASX today commenced trading of S&P/ASX 200 VIX futures, a new exchange traded product that allows users to trade, hedge and arbitrage anticipated volatility in the Australian equity market. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX index is an Australian equity market ...