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IFM to cut fees after pricing review

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM), which oversees $44 billion in assets, is ready to set a date for its wide-ranging fee reduction, almost two years after announcing a pricing review. The Global Pricing Review was first announced in November 2011 and ...

Austock Life appoints national sales manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
Austock Life has appointed a national sales manager to build a business development team and focus on adviser support. New national sales manager will be Tony Gobbo, a sales and distribution manager with over 25 years of experience in building and managing ...

Fracking shock in store for US

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... business is focused principally in the Japanese market and has no US-focused portfolios, believes Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is managing expectations to avoid global panic when he eventually pulls the plug on the asset purchase program. "Bernanke's ...

The coming 2013 crash according to Paul B. Farrell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
I tried and I tried and I tried, still I can't get no...nothing from the old brain today. It must be Friday. And a Friday before a long weekend at that. I can report that taper's back off again. Nothing fresh, nothing new. Even the ECB and the BOE that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat after erratic swings on Wall Street and falls on European bourses after the European Central Bank and Bank of England kept rates on hold. At 0817 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract ...

Shell Super to outsource to Plum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Shell Australia Superannuation Fund (Shell) is set outsource its superannuation to Plum Financial Services Ltd (Plum), once it gets trustee sign off. Shell made the announcement in a member update this week. "The decision as to whether or not a transfer ...

SME with accountant advice are more successful: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Small and medium enterprises (SME) using their accountants as advisers are more likely to achieve financial success, according to MYOB Business Monitor research. The March 2013 MYOB Business Monitor found that 21% of SMEs with an advisory relationship ...

SBBs to be part of NGS Super's new ethical option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Industry fund NGS Super is currently designing an ethical option that will include environmentally sound investments with other ethical investments such as social benefit bonds (SSBs). "We are taking our current green shares option, and folding that ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself." - Publilius Syrus (Maxim 511) What parent would name his child Publilius? But Pub - the Assyrian who wrote mimes in Latin during the 1 BC - as he was fondly called could have been describing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following sharp losses on Wall Street. At 0748 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 47 points at 4,784. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...