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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... economic outlook, with fears the eurozone debt crisis will suck in Italy and Spain. The Hang Seng's gains were merely a technical rebound after they lost 4.7 per cent over the previous two days on the back of the European woes. The benchmark Hang Seng ...

SMSFs may be banned from buying shares off-market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... consultative group. The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) opposes it. Peter Burgess, technical director of SPAA, said the best practice guidelines were a better way to go, and that his organisation had suggested amendments ...

OnePath arms planners with post FOFA program

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... providing information updates and tools to help advice businesses implement fee for service. FutureReady features online technical papers, transition advice and guidance on service and charging models, supported by an Australian Institute of Financial ...

Long-term strategies pay off for investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
Long-term investment strategies offer better returns, while Australian equities are beating residential investment property as the best performing asset for the last 20 years. In the 13th Russell Investments/ASX Long-Term Investing Report, released ...

AMP looks to uni for future planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... with groups to submit a case study in response to a hypothetical client case study. The top five will then face a live technical quiz and live client role play in Sydney. The competition opens on 25 July with the winning team to receive a $5,000 AMP ...

Bendigo Wealth expands, restructures with seven senior appointments

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... Bendigo Wealth Manufacturing, Gillian Carless as senior manager of Manufacturing and Julie McKay as senior manager of Technical and Research. "It's increasing the size of the team and expertise," Tullio said. "We're now focusing on our offer in the independent ...

Mentoring opportunity for women in finance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... hard data on which specific areas of the financial services industry have the fewest numbers of female staff, financial technical services and executive roles are the most male-dominated areas. "It is a question of whether they will create an environment ...

Tax strategies from ATO, Cavendish

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... service provider, Cavendish Superannuation, has used the end of financial year as the ideal time to send out its latest technical update discussing its opinions on a number of issues facing the industry including contribution caps, avoiding excess contribution ...

State Street secures REST lending deal

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... "Securities lending is an area where funds with extensive domestic and global holdings require specific support and technical expertise," said Francesco Squillacioti, regional business director, securities finance, State Street, Asia Pacific. State Street ...

MLC launches contrib. cap tool

... letters to the 0.65 per cent of all super fund members who breached their contribution caps. Gemma Dale, head of MLC technical services said, "By breaching these caps Australians now have $180 million less in savings to fund their retirement and provide ...