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Wizard founder builds Yellow Brick Road

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris and former UBS banker Bryan Davies have joined forces to create new retail advice and wealth management company Yellow Brick Road (YBR). The company will focus on after-tax returns, offering advice, accounting ...

SMSFs and mergers drive Macq property fund growth

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
Macquarie Direct Property Fund (MDPF) today announced assets under management increased by almost 200 per cent over the past 12 months through a series of mergers and acquisitions that tipped in over $800m. The fund also experienced another successful ...

Being smart doesn't guarantee wealth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Smart people have better jobs, make more money, save more, invest more and end up richer than dumb people? Not quite, according to a report. An intriguing study from the US has confirmed what many of us probably knew but wouldn't openly admit: being ...

Not drowning just waving

It is confession season for corporates and while the Institutional Broker's Estimate System shows a majority of analysts downgrading profits, the domestic market seems to be waving rather than drowning. A month or so out from the official company results ...

Economic round-up: Umbrellas up, ice creams down

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007

Economic round-up: Infrastructure's renovation rescue

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
The States have launched into a long overdue renovation rescue of infrastructure, but skills shortages could put a dampener on the progress of new projects. The FY08 State budget rounds have been completed and reveal that the Australian States remain ...

Industry cheers red tape cuts

... Accountants in Australia (ICAA). According to the proposed laws, financial planners will only need to provide a Record of Advice (RoA) as opposed to a full Statement of Advice (SoA) for individuals investing less than $15,000. Planners also don't have ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
Weakness in our infrastructure just wont go away as a new report by the Prime Minister's chief scientific panel warns that climate changes are presenting further challenges to infrastructure and the future of our economy. Independent think tank, CEDA ...

Economic round-up: Greenspan versus the poet

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
While China's Premier Wen Jiabao relies on the economic advice of a poet, America's former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, protests he has less influence than he's given credit for with his economic observations. Trying to turn down the heat ...

IMAP open to new members

The Institute of Managed Account Providers (IMAP) is officially accepting new members after finalising its membership conditions and key industry campaigns for this year. Following industry discussions over the past eight months, IMAP will be officially ...