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Financial Simplicity boosts managed accounts offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
Financial Simplicity has upgraded its managed accounts offering to include a personalised multi-tax wrapper rebalancing to model portfolios for its wealth management clients. This new functionality has been added to enable wealth managers to calculate ...

A stock market rally could get Obama over the line

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... dedicated to compliance makes reform more likely than repeal. Recent bank scandals mean that even the controversial Volcker Rule is likely to stay under a GOP government, although Romney would have influence over the Financial Stability Oversight Council ...

New hedge fund rules for post-GFC environment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
ASIC's new guidance on hedge funds will force managers to greater disclosure on where money is invested, how assets are valued, the fund's structure and the risks involved to better protect investors following recent high-profile cases of fraud. Addressing ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012

CEO bonuses tumbled in 2011

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... light of company returns. We have seen this level of dialogue and engagement increase with the advent of the 'two strikes' rule on executive pay," ACSI said. Even though, the bonuses fell materially in 2011, the fixed pay for the ASX 100 in the same ...

SMSF collectable insurance poses compliance risks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
Collectable assets held within a self-managed super fund (SMSF) are about to cause compliance problems for trustees failing to procure appropriate insurance, one service provider has warned. All new SMSF investments in art and collectables made on or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... at monetary easing also gave a fillip, while traders were confident of a positive verdict in Germany as judges were set to rule on whether Berlin can legally take part in the eurozone's bailout fund. Tokyo surged 1.73 per cent, or 152.58 points, to 8,959.96 ...

Denison: Adviser's action crucial to investment success

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Australian advisers play a crucial role in holding fund managers accountable to their investors, and in addressing poor investment performance, according to Denison Funds Management. Currently many investors are unhappy with poorly performing investment ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... he said. "I think our call for the market is for a nothing sort of day." A German court on Wednesday (EU time) is due to rule on the constitutionality of Berlin taking part in the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to support debt-plagued euro zone countries. ...

Wilson HTM awarded damages

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
Wilson HTM has been awarded $174, 416 in damages, after chief justice Patricia Bergin said this morning in the NSW Supreme Court, that commission and revenue statements tendered to rival broker Ord Minnett by Wilson's former Sydney desk boss Joseph ...