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Johnson Report holds key to competition

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
The most significant recommendation from the four major reviews in financial services comes from the Johnson Report to reduce interest withholding tax, which could place Australia at the top of the global competition ranks, research shows. More than ...

Fox elected AFA president

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Brad Fox is the AFA's newly-elected national president, taking over a two-year term alongside new vice president Adam Smith. Fox, previously on the AFA board as the representative of the GenXt (AFA's sub-group of members made up of the younger advisers) ...

INQ buys HUB24 for $20 million

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
Boutique stockbroker Investorfirst has acquired unified managed account (UMA) provider HUB24 in a scrip-for scrip deal worth $20 million. Investorfirst said the transaction was part of its shift towards becoming an "integrated financial services house" ...

Top fund CEOs join climate change panel

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
Nine chief executives from some of Australia's biggest super funds and investment managers have formed a panel to ramp up talks on climate change policy, including the design of a carbon price in Australia. The panel includes Ian Silk, of AustralianSuper ...

Bank claims Great Southern action stumped

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has claimed that the Great Southern class action DC Legal commenced against the bank has "fallen over". The bank made its calls following the striking out on last Wednesday of the separate class action initiated by Macpherson ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
Heard at the G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju: blah, blah, blah... and more blah, blah, blah. As it always is when top authorities of the top nations meet, there's going to be too much chatter and too little done. Financial markets were right to expect that ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Investors who view the world in macro terms often intuitively base their approach on a country's economic fundamentals. But new research suggests economic fundamentals may have little bearing on the performance of a country's stockmarket. According ...

CFS GAM makes a case for raising govt debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
A leading strategist at one of Australia's largest investment managers argues the case for more government debt in Australia, and says that super funds could play a key role in absorbing higher bond issuance. Stephen Halmarick, head of investment research ...

AvSuper awards hedge fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
AvSuper has appointed $25 million each to Fauchier Partners and Aurora as the fund ramps up its hedge fund strategies. Michelle Griffiths, chief executive of Canberra-based AvSuper, said the $50 million mandates are part of the funding for the super ...

Future Fund offloads Telstra shares

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
The $67 billion-plus Future Fund has sold 113.6 million Telstra shares - bringing its holding in the telecom giant down from 10.9 to 10 per cent. At a senate estimates hearing yesterday, the Future Fund Board of Guardians said it had sold the shares ...