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Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... admonitions, pre-conditions, sanctions, analyses, debates, discussions - heck even more summits - but the powers-that-are wouldn't let the weakest link break. Certainly, the problems in Europe won't go away anytime soon and financial markets will continue ...

Strong growth in securities lending: J.P. Morgan

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... suspensions. "These are two points in time were the market was comparable. "The first thought is no longer 'the market is difficult, let's get out of lending,' "If the GFC did anything, it raised the bar," he said.

Fewer IPO's no excuse for poor returns: Hyperion

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
Less initial public offerings (IPOs) shouldn't mean a slump in performance, said Hyperion Asset Management. Managers should view IPO activity as the exception, rather than the rule, added Jason Orthman, one of Hyperion's portfolio managers. "In the ...

AIA Australia improves adviser quoting and app tool

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
AIA Australia has revamped its online quoting and application tool eApp Express for advisers in direct response to adviser feedback. It's understood that eApp Express - which lets advisers electronically lodge life insurance quotes and applications ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... global stock market sell-off in August 2011. Another danger is that the announcement of further quantitative easing could let inflation out the tube, unsettling investors and leading to negative market sentiment. One final concern is that the closeness ...

Beware greedy SMSF intermediaries

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Competition for business amid the rapid growth of the SMSF industry is in danger of diluting the quality of service for the end client, according to a number of industry professionals. India-based Sundaram Business Services has been operating in Australia ...

Wilson board to reject Mariner offer

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
Wilson HTM's board of directors intends to advise shareholders to reject Mariner Corporation's offer for shares in the company. In a letter to shareholders, Wilson HTM managing director Andrew Coppin said that the board would be rejecting Mariners "Conditional ...

QE3, OMT, APP equals D-U-D?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012

Tax-efficient giving advice missing: Macquarie

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... financial advisers to outsource propositions. Bruce Christie, an adviser for Centric Wealth, says he is more than happy to let specialist companies with the required expertise manage his clients' philanthropy needs for him. "We outsource everything," ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
Still smarting over a Senate Committee gruelling over its tobacco investments, the Future Fund - the largest fund in Australia - is being accused of insufficient transparency over climate-change risk mitigation within its portfolio. A FOI search two ...