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Taggart receives OAM

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
Jim Taggart, national president at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), has been awarded an Order of Australia medal. Taggart received the honour for his work in charitable, community and sporting organisations in Baulkham Hills. According to ...

Boutique incubators target retail market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
Boutique incubators, Ascalon Capital Managers and Treasury Group, are ramping up their retail distribution strategy to broaden their fund managers' funds under management (FUM). Mark Burgess, managing director at Treasury Group, said the firm had spent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
Australian stocks are expected to open lower on Monday following a weak lead from the US and most major world markets. At 0733 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 47 points lower at 4,499. In economic news ...

BNP Paribas merges with Fortis IM Aust

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
BNP Paribas Investment Partners Australia is to merge with Fortis Investment Management Australia - creating a $23 billion-plus entity with BNP's local head Robert Harrison at the helm. The mergers comes less than nine months since BNP Paribas bought ...

ASIC power boost could trigger witch-hunts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Some investment experts worry the government's plans to increase ASIC's investigative powers could spark industry witch-hunts. Indy Singh, managing director of Fiducian, said the government has to tread carefully when increasing ASIC's powers and assure ...

AMP won't rely on M&A: Dunn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... planner conference last week, Dunn said the firm's merger and acquisition (M&A) strategy is only one part of its overall plan. "While M&A is potentially a very attractive option for us, it's not a strategic 'must do'," he said. He said AMP is considering ...

The audacity of Mark Bouris and Ray Miles

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
Platform and admin providers have less than three weeks to map out a bid that could secure them a landmark contract from a new planning syndicate led by Wizard founder Mark Bouris and ex-Genesys head Ray Miles - but details of the bid suggest any deal ...

IT growth and spending to slow

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
North America's IT services market is expected to go through a tough 2010 and until 2011 - an effect that will send ripples throughout the financial services IT sector in Australia. Ovum's recently released model "North American Market Trends 2009 ...

Super worries plague Aussies worst

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
Superannuation is the number cause of financial worries among Australians, but many are choosing newspapers over advisers for information when making financial decisions, new CoreData figures show. CoreData surveyed 4,000 Australians and found that ...

Emerging markets look expensive: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
David Bassanese's exchange traded fund (ETF) research found emerging market stocks are starting to get expensive but it remains bullish on local equities. The Pennywise Investment January report said the price-to-book value across emerging market stocks ...