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AFM gets expanded AFSL

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
Distribution, sales, marketing and compliance adviser Australian Funds Marketing (AFM) has been granted an expanded Australian Financial Services License to operate registered managed investment schemes. "This makes AFM a one-stop shop for responsible ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
Australian Bureau of Statistics data released yesterday revealed a 0.6 per cent increase in the seasonally adjusted value of retail sales in July to $18.1 billion, largely as a result of a 7 per cent increase in department store sales which accounted ...

Scam targets ethnic community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned investors to be wary of investment schemes targeted at specific communities after it acted to shut down a scam targeting the Australian Chinese community. ASIC investigations uncovered ...

Malaysian EPF now unwired for SMS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
Australia runs a technologically more advanced super fund system than Malaysia, right? Wrong, and it's time we caught up with what our northern neighbours are doing. Members of Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and their employers can now obtain ...

AustralianSuper moniker confusion

... Australian Superannuation Pty Ltd, trustee for the Managed Australian Retirement Fund (MARF), was the first group to register its name well over five years ago, according to the trustee's chairman, Lawrie Litzow. The name bears an almost identical resemblance ...

Financial services exports trailing economy

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and International Security Kevin Rudd has unveiled a plan to promote Australia as an Asia hub and boost financial services exports, saying we are missing a potential growth opportunity. Speaking to the Investment ...

Emerging markets enter hibernation

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
Emerging market fund flows are at a virtual stasis after recent volatility and a large scale capital exodus in June, according to the latest figures released by Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR). Emerging market fund flows were virtually stagnant ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
The US equity and bond markets are reading from different pages but the result is the same - they both went down overnight. US bond yields rose last night reacting to reports suggesting rising inflationary pressure and therefore, more Fed interest rate ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker despite yesterday's rapid fall as a sea of red across global equity markets overnight suggest a continuation of the selling that hit the domestic bourse yesterday afternoon. Yesterday the investors ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will meet again tomorrow to deliberate on domestic monetary policy settings. Financial markets expect the RBA not to immediately follow-up last month's 25-basis point rate hike, which took the official cash rate to ...