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Leap in appetite for overseas assets

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
Investor appetite for overseas assets jumped 15% in March, according to the Certitude Global Investing Intentions Index (CGIII), and is now at the second highest level since the index was constructed in June 2013. The Index collates the views of over ...

PE backed IPOs outperform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
Initial public offerings backed by private equity investment managers out-perform other IPOs by a factor of almost 50:1, according to research just released by the private equity and venture capital association AVCAL. The study which was prepared by ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
Minute to win it!... or rather the minutes of the Fed's 18-19 March FOMC meeting win it for Wall Street. The S&P 500 and the Dow jumped by 1.1% and yesterday's hated Nasdaq is now loved again, up 1.7%. But this was - more or less - how we saw it when ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
As the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) debate rages on, Shadow Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bernie Ripoll looks back at its inception. Laura Millan A reports. At the beginning, the future of financial advice was in the hands of Bernie ...

Macquarie Flexi 100 open for investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
Macquarie Specialist Investors has opened its Macquarie Flexi 100 Trust (Flexi) for investment for the fourteenth time. Flexi allows investors to borrow 100% of their investment amount to gain 100% principal protected exposure to "a range of domestic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
The share market has opened lower following a selloff on Wall Street overnight. Rivkin global investment manager Tim Radford said US markets finished more than one per cent lower thanks to heavy losses in tech stocks. But, he said, the local market ...

Time to go away?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
Three consecutive down days on the Street have turned the S&P 500 index's 2.3% gain for the year to a 0.2% loss; the Dow's flat (0.02%) performance into a 2.0% loss; and the Nasdaq's positive 2.4% into negative 2.3%. Three down days and suddenly allusions ...

AstuteWheel launch estate planning tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
AstuteWheel have launched an estate planning tool that helps advisers gather their clients' information before they meet with the solicitor. "Usually clients don't know where to start when it comes to estate planning and unless the adviser knows how ...

APRA requests more decision-making power

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has used its submission to the Financial System Inquiry to call for increased independence from government. APRA's submission argues that it needs more freedom to regulate the banking, superannuation ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app. In the latest edition of Financial Standard, we look at misconceptions over the size of self-managed superannuation Fund (SMSF) viability. We also look at the UK government's decision to ...