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New board member to tackle Asia growth: La Trobe

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... specialist fund manager la Trobe has added another director to its board to help spearhead the business's expansion in Asia. Yesterday La Trobe said that Hung Fei Chan, who is based in Hong Kong, would join its board. Chan will specifically assist La ...

Pro bono advice for disaster victims

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
Disaster victims will get free financial advice after the Financial Planning Association of Australia yesterday said that it had re-launched a pro bono service. The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has started the service up again to ...

Dignity Super's main aim, ASFA reminds politicians

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... the country's retirement system, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia reminded the Federal Government yesterday. Speculation over changes that both the Gillard Government and the Federal Opposition would make to superannuation tax concession ...

Alternative funds delivering: van Eyk

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
Research house van Eyk said yesterday that the better alternative investments funds are successfully protecting investors from falls in equity markets and diversifying portfolios. van Eyk has just released an additional 10 fund ratings in the Alternatives ...

No end in sight for ASX rally: InStreet

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... growing economy is what we must observe before we join in the greyhound race," said the MyClime team in a report published yesterday. Unperturbed by these comments, Lucas is confident that improved investor sentiment, predicated by the 'great rotation' ...

CBA to snare DIY investors with MyWealth platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
Commonwealth Bank yesterday launched MyWealth, a new platform which attempts to attract the three million Australian do-it-yourself investors to trade shares, ETFs and fixed interest investments online. Described by the bank as a first for the Australian ...

ASIC cancels national planning firm's license

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... (ASIC) after it had 'comprehensively and repeatedly' failed to comply with the Corporations Act 2001, it was announced yesterday. Following surveillance of the business since June 2010, ASIC found that AAA had breached the majority of its license obligations. ...

Insider selling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... uncertainty in Italy and Spain. That caused just brief palpitations - and a high for dip buyers, did it not? And just yesterday morning, word spread that China and Japan rattling their sabres again. What did investors do? They sent the Nikkei-225 up ...

Future Fund returns 12.8% for 2012

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... behalf of Australia's public sector employees, also made a return of more than 12% for last calendar year, it said. Yesterday the fund released its portfolio update and performance report as at 31 December 2012, with managing director Mark Burgess saying ...

Frontier staffs up

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
Frontier Advisors, the industry superannuation fund-owned asset consultancy, yesterday said five new staff been added to its roster. Gilly Zimmer joined Frontier on 29 January as a consultant. Previously Zimmer was a senior manager, infrastructure ...