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Planning business gives teachers bad advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
A Sydney financial planning business targeting teachers has been found guilty of providing super switching advice that was misleading or deceptive. The Supreme Court of New South Wales found First Capital Financial Planning, under the business name ...

CFS feels the rhythm

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has gotten with the groove by agreeing to purchase a major music copyright catalogue from DreamWorks Music Publishing as it prepares to launch a media-focused investment fund. CFS first formed its ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
... Institute Inflation Gauge for April also will be released. In equities, Orica Ltd will release its first half results. Origin Energy Ltd and Newcrest Mining both will release their third quarter production report. Australian stocks succumbed to profit-taking ...

Contango targets financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
The boutique Australian equity fund manager Contango Asset Management is branching out with the release yesterday of a prospectus for a listed investment company that has a mandate to invest purely in the financial services industry. The prospectus ...

CGT overshadows Simpler Super benefits: Centric

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
Anne-Marie Esler of Centric Wealth argues that while the new simpler super rules are a significant step forward, issues relating to capital gains tax (CGT) have been overlooked. Esler outlined what she considered the five main issues regarding super ...

LIXI makes lending technologies more affordable

The Lending Industry XML Initiative (LIXI), a non-profit organisation representing mortgage brokers and lenders, has changed its membership model to allow more industry players to adopt better and cheaper e-commerce technologies. LIXI was established ...

Bad will hunting

An estate planning expert has warned that the simpler super legislation effective July this year magnifies a number of estate planning traps and urged those aged 50 or over to review their will and adjust it according to the new super rules. Trust's ...

Mirvac AQUA appoints ex-Merrill Lynch, Next exec

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
Former Merrill Lynch managing director, head of distribution and Next Financial head of distribution, Damien McIntyre, has been appointed as head of business development for Mirvac AQUA. McIntyre will assume responsibility for managing Mirvac AQUA's ...

Fund manager transparency getting worse

Fund managers are getting so sophisticated with their PR that there's more spin than substance to the raft of information they churn out today compared with a decade ago. Angela Ashton, head of research at IWL, said that it's gotten so bad fund managers ...

Perpetual gears up retail investors

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
Perpetual Investments has launched a structured product for retail investors with an option to gear up the investment and a capital protection function. Perpetual Protected Investments - Series 1 gives retail investors access to a range of 14 growth ...