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FSC appoints Vanguard head to board

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
John James, chairman and managing director of Vanguard Investments Australia has been elected as a director of the Financial Services Council to fill a casual vacancy. James replaces Brian Bissaker, former chief executive of Colonial First State Investments ...

Midwinter empowers adviser software

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... at age 65. "If someone is earning over $300k per annum and making concessional contributions of $20,000, then there is an extra contributions tax of $3,000 per annum if the user includes this tax setting," said Plummer.

Deja vu of deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
Hang on to your hats folks, cause here we go again. Back to extrapolating current gloom into doom and forgetting that these were exactly the ones that provided good entry points in the markets. The scaredy cats are running for the hills again. Want ...

Fearing the unknown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... whenever a Eurozone member country goes to the market for refunding, and the elections in France and Greece would produce an extra layer of uncertainty with regards to the euro response to its debt crisis. If you haven't factored these in into your investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed mixed and European stocks finished higher with bourses settling and showing little impact of the elections in France and Greece. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the June share ...

Merlon fund switches to monthly distributions

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... approach, with a focus on sustainable higher yielding equities, together with options to manage downside risk, gives us extra ability to generate regular tax-effective income with confidence and provide investors with a regular income stream vital for ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... the 19th straight month that jobs were expanding - a total of 3.1 million jobs created since October last year. This is an extra 3.1 million workers spending extra dollars on the economy, creating extra sales, raising company profits, increasing demand ...

The revival of stock picking

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
Despite the poor returns of a long/short equity strategy last year, stock picking is the area in which to make the best money in the current environment, according to a bold prediction from fund of hedge fund manager Fauchier Partners. Success however ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Yes Virginia, there'll be a lot of people saying this to themselves this morning. Those who clicked on that button just because the "panic" crowd appeared to be, well, panicking. Some would even be kicking themselves as they ...