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Advice group sues online forum over negative review

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Financial planning firm WCS Group has started legal action against forum website Whirlpool over comments posted by a user named 'homemadecook.' WCS Group is a financial planning and mortgage broking business within NAB-owned dealer group Apogee. As ...

Van Eck Global expands Australia team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Van Eck Global has made several appointments to its Australian team to help expand its institutional presence and its exchange traded fund (ETF) business, Market Vectors ETFs. The business has appointed John Caulfield vice president of institutional ...

Australian Ethical launches country's first ethical bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Australian Ethical has made it possible for Australians to investing in ethical fixed interest assets for the first time with the launch of a new fund. The Australian Ethical Fixed Interest Trust comprises a diversified portfolio of Australian dollar-denominated ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
I'll be ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing - this morning if not for the fact that it's the big boys playing with nuke toys that are escalating their tit-for-tat aggression... even if they hurt themselves in the process. Instead, me, myself and I ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market is lower as fears of an escalation of the Ukraine conflict and a potential move by the US Federal Reserve to increase interest rates impacts the local exchange. The market impact of reports Russia is massing troops on the ...

Folkestone acquires land for planned community

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Listed real estate funds manager Folkestone has entered into a joint venture with ID_Land to establish the Folkestone Truganina Development Fund. The Fund has acquired an 80% interest in a 52.5 hectare residential master planned community in Melbourne's ...

Energy Super names new head of investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
Energy Super has appointed ESSSuper's William Graus to the newly-created role of general manager, investments. Graus joined Energy Super from ESSSuper, where he spent five years as senior investment officer. Prior to this he was the chief investment ...

PROFILE: Head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management Anthony Kirkham

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
Anthony Kirkham, the country head of fixedA income giant Western Asset Management, found his calling at a young age. Alice Uribe finds out how he steers a ship that quadrupled its funds under management to $20 billion despite challenging times. Anthony ...

SMSFs stung by $1M property Ponzi scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Barry John Patrick, a 71-year-old man from Victoria, has been charged for illegally obtaining more than $1 million from self-managed super fund (SMSF) investors to fund property development. Patrick obtained the money from 14 investors between 2007 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher following positive overseas leads. Wall Street was boosted by better-than-expected earnings from multinational bank Citigroup overnight, with the Dow Jones rising 0.66 per cent. Asian markets also finished ...