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Lonsec research head exits for Morningstar

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
Lonsec's general manager of research, Grant Kennaway, has resigned from the research house, effective immediately, and moved to the newly created position of head of fund research, Asia-Pacific at Morningstar. Kennaway has submitted his resignation ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
Chicken Little's back! It's back telling everyone who cares to listen that "the sky is falling". Chicken Little knows. "I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and a bit of it fell on my head" (The Sky is Falling) as it watched the Democrats ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... 2,842.80. Democrats and Republicans battled over the weekend and again throughout Monday over whose debt-and-deficit reduction plan was better, while investors and economists urged a deal to prevent, at least, a downgrade of the country's AAA standing ...

Planners remain wary of switching cash to equities

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
Financial advisers remain tentative on the outlook for equity markets although more than half surveyed by Zurich are thinking about reducing the amount of cash in client portfolios. Zurich spoke to 300 advisers nationwide with 59% "indicating a potential ...

Astarra director convicted by NSW Supreme Court

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
A NSW Supreme Court judge found on Friday that a term of imprisonment would be the only appropriate punishment for Shawn "Shawny Cash" Richard, the former director of Astarra Asset Management. Justice Peter Garling convicted the 36-year-old Canadian-born ...

Bank of Melbourne relaunches with plans for 90 new branches

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
The first accounts were opened today at the new Bank of Melbourne, as Westpac rebrands its St George group and embarks on an expansion drive to capture the Victorian regional market. Scott Tanner, chief executive, said the bank today opened three new ...

Advisers expect profits to climb 10pc despite FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
Advisers expect profits to climb by 10% in the next financial year with optimism within the industry at record high levels, despite talk of regulatory doom and gloom plaguing its future. The Macquarie Practice Consulting's 2011 Financial Planning Practices ...

Australia ahead of pack in IT wealth spend

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
The wealth management industry in Australia and the Asia Pacific is set to outpace the rest of the world in IT investment over the next four years as the need for enhanced internet services and compliance technology fuels spending. According to technology ...

Super funds drop fees after merger

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... a reduction of 31.25%. Cuesuper is now about four months into the merger with NGS Super, with no main departures from the plan, Taylor told the conference. "We have slightly better investment performance, more capable relationship managers to work with ...

New tool launched to gear SMSFs into property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
Self-managed super administration provider Multiport has launched a new package to help SMSF trustees gear property into SMSFs and invited financial planners to a roundtable discussion debating the merits of property in super. At the luncheon in Sydney ...