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Synchron NextGen success firm expands to Sydney

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Synchron's Melbourne-based private wealth management firm, Wealth Enhancers is recruiting for their new Sydney-based boutique office to be headed by former UBS equity trader Wade Tink. Tink, a graduate of Synchron's NextGen program, left UBS to join ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... billion euros of unused funds from the EU's 2007-2013 budget will be redirected towards job creation, especially among the young, and will commit to freeing up bank lending to small- and medium-sized companies." Even that scholar of the Great Depression ...

Financial services digging deep for FICAP

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... Financial Services. FICAP was set up in 2006 by financial service professionals looking to raise money for charities for young people. The FICAP Committee is made up of several industry participants representing a number of major funds management, advice ...

China on course for slowdown, not landing: Fidelity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
Debate over whether China is in for a soft or hard landing is overplayed, according to David Urquhart, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Asia Fund. Speaking at a Fidelity briefing in Sydney this week, Urquhart pointed to recent IMF projections of 8.2% ...

Call for new generation annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
The Actuaries Institute has called for tax disincentives to be removed from deferred lifetime annuity products found in overseas markets, along with the development of a new generation of annuities in its pre-budget submission to the Federal Government. ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... billion euros of unused funds from the EU's 2007-2013 budget will be redirected towards job creation, especially among the young, and will commit to freeing up bank lending to small- and medium-sized companies." For moi, this is the best piece of news ...

Super tax concessions in spotlight

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, Pauline Vamos, who argue tax concessions are a necessary part of a system as young as Australia's. "We need people to fund their own retirement and the only way to do that in Australia because we pay ...

Female SMSF trustees narrow gender gap

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Nearly half of all SMSF members are women, which is helping to reduce the gender gap in retirement savings according to Australia's peak SMSF body. Pointing to recently released figures from the tax office that reveal 46% of SMSF trustees are female ...

So far so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... that investors don't want to bet against the powers that be. If you want to shake your heads in disbelief, look to Europe young man. Yes, Europe - the region that's the source of angst that's keeping most investors awake at night. It's on the brink of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... in its production in the last quarter of 2011. Materials remained the strongest sector, adding 0.7 per cent as Ernst and Young forecast steel output growth of around 6.7 per cent in 2012, driven by rising demand from India and China. BHP Billiton added ...