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Perpetual launches iPhone app

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
Perpetual has launched a free app for the iPhone and iPad tablet, to provide instant access to information for advisers and investors. "The Perpetual iPhone App has been designed to provide advisers and investors timely and relevant information on investment ...

Acadian appoints new CEO

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
Acadian Asset Management Australia has appointed Andrew Hair as chief executive officer. Hair joined Acadian Australia in March 2007 and had been responsible for leading the business's institutional client service, sales and consultant relationship ...

There's the good news and there's the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... will do something - just as they did in the past many times over." And now it's turning out just as it was written. Our BFF Ben just reminded us yesterday. And so did the European Central Bank and Frauline Merkel. Those who bought-op the S&P 500 on this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's rise despite mixed earnings reports, mediocre jobs claims figures but strong housing data. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 18 points at ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
The Australian share market has opened well over half a per cent higher, buoyed by optimism on overseas markets. At 1012 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.2 points, or 0.71 per cent, at 4,391.6, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

SuperMate updates online SMSF

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
SuperMate has launched three updates to its online self managed super fund administration service. The updates include fully automated ASX corporate actions processing, overnight bank data download into SMFSs for 95% of bank transactions and direct ...

Advisers should focus on cost of advice

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
Financial advisers should place more scrutiny on the cost of providing advice per client as the industry moves toward fee for service, according to Provisio Technologies. Planning businesses may struggle to accurately pin down service costs per client ...

GESB awards $2.3bn in bond mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
WA super provider GESB has awarded four global bond investment mandates to Wellington Management Company LLP, Franklin Templeton Investments Australia Ltd and PIMCO Australia Pty Limited, worth a total of $2.3bn. The mandates will cover two global bond ...

Hedge funds outperform: Research

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
Research commissioned by KPMG International and AIMA on the global hedge fund industry has found that funds have significantly outperformed equities, bonds and commodities over the past 17 years. The study, conducted by the Centre For Hedge Fund Research ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Ben Bernanke! It was a wow day on Wall Street overnight as our friend Ben reinforced this Ben's view that it would be a win-win for equity markets, no matter how the Fed see its ...