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ANZ Wealth head joins FSC

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
ANZ Wealth managing director, John Van Der Wielen, has joined the Financial Services Council board as a director. He joins 12 other board members including Craig Meller, managing director, AMP Financial Services and Brad Cooper, chief executive, BT ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all finishing over one per cent lower. Gold and silver were higher, but oil slumped. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
A panel of top investment experts has put the bullish stamp on their outlook for US equities. Dave Marvin, chairman of Delaware-based investment management firm Marvin & Palmer Associates, said he is extremely bullish on US stocks as the severe recession ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is heading to Canberra to lobby the Federal Government over capital gains tax relief, association chief Pauline Vamos told a packed Sydney luncheon yesterday. The organisation wants continued tax ...

BOQ launches online trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has teamed up with CMC Markets to provide online share trading service for retail investors. BOQ Trading enables customers to trade shares, options, warrants and managed funds at $17.95 per trade- courtesy of CMC's range of ...

Asia to grow amid inflation threat: ADB

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Asia will maintain solid expansion for the next two years amid fears of inflation and geopolitical uncertainties, according to a report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). ADB's annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2011 (ADO 2011) ...

Hands off collectables: SISFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
The Small Independent Superannuation Funds Association has asked the Government to leave the rules on collectables in self-managed super funds unchanged. The organisation has made a submission on the Government's draft legislation regarding collectables ...

Roadmap to life insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
The future of life insurance rests with advisers, good reforms and consumer education according to three key insurance figures speaking at the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference today. In the first session for the day in Sydney, Geoff ...

Hunter Hall defiant on Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
Boutique fund manager Hunter Hall increases Japan exposure while maintaining its focus on handpicked assets in China and less fancied ASEAN markets. Hunter Hall Chief Executive officer David Buckland said that the fund's Asian Value Trust, launched ...

More time needed for Stronger Super side issues: Costello

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
There is not enough time to comprehensively deal with all the issues involved in the implementation of the Stronger Super package by June, the chair of the Federal Government's working group on the super system review has told the Conference of Major ...