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Capital protected products shine in gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Nervous market sentiment is prompting demand for defensive investments and sparking innovation with the Commonwealth Bank pondering new capital protected product structures. Moghseen Jadwat, head of business development for structured investments at ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The impending loss of trailing commissions for managed funds has made listed investment companies more attractive by leveling the playing field, an industry insider said yesterday. John Robinson, chairman of Global Mining Investments (GMI), a listed ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Australian stocks plunged at the open after world markets fell sharply overnight and experts say more grief is to come. At time of writing, the All Ordinaries Index was down 173 points or 3.97% to 4179.9 while the S&P ASX 200 had given up 156.5 points ...

JP Morgan appoints new head, casts eyes to Japan

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
JP Morgan Treasury & Security Services has promoted internally to source its new head of financial and market products for Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Stewart Cowan has had his previous role of leading the securities lending operation expanded ...

Market woes cause adviser headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Funeral provider Invocare could provide a good non-cyclical stock to hold in a falling market, a CMC Markets analyst has said, while financial advisers faced with worried clients have been told to get back to basics. Australian stocks have been in rapid ...

Tax rules set for TPD insurance deductibility

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Proposed amendments to superannuation tax law will make it easier for self-managed super funds to work out their tax deductions for insurance, an SMSF expert has said. The draft legislation, released yesterday, specifies how much of the premium for ...

Star hire strengthens IOOF adviser drive

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
Diversified financial group IOOF has appointed MLC star platform manager Chris Weldon to head its platform products division as it moves to expand its presence in the financial advisory market. Weldon started work yesterday as the new head of platform ...

Rates rise in Italy while Cypriot pension funds withdraw cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
Troubles have again surfaced in the Eurozone with markets concerned over Italian public debt and Cypriot pension funds withdrawing cash from banks exposed to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. The yield on 10-year Italian BTP bonds has risen to 6.26 per ...

Industry super funds show patchy approach to emergency reserves

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
Industry super funds have increased their emergency reserves since the global financial crisis but the uptake has been patchy with some funds having no buffer at all, new research has found. Deloitte Actuaries and Consultants scrutinised 65 industry ...

Mercer chief scores plum promotion

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
Investment services and consulting group Mercer has promoted its global chief operating officer to the plum role of global head of wealth management consulting. London-based Cara Williams previously spent six years as global chief operating officer ...