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ASIC targets five unregistered property ventures

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Melbourne company director Mark Ronald Letten has come under further ASIC scrutiny after the regulator moved to appoint receivers to an additional five unregistered property ventures associated with Letten. On Friday, 30 July, ASIC obtained orders relating ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... unemployment rate to nudge up to 9.6 per cent in July. Employment is expected to fall by 65,000 as more Census workers are let go. Private sector jobs are forecast to increase by 90,000. This leaves the US jobs report wide open to a number of interpretations. ...

Trustees address 'young' elephant in the room

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... to think about," she said. Solution? Just don't mention the 'R' word: retirement. "They're not thinking about retirement so let's not talk about it as a retirement product. So I think it's about changing the way we talk, changing the mechanisms to the ...

Mandatory trustee pay disclosure draws debate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... something which may happen in the future where there is already a superior mechanism that has been used by the regulator - so why let everybody conform to something just because some might, at some time, be required to [disclose their pay]?" That said ...

Valad wins $700m property mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Valad Property Group has won a $700 million mandate from Kefren Properties IX AB to manage the firm's real estate portfolio in Sweden. According to a press statement, the Kefren portfolio consists of 150 properties spanning more than 827,000sqm of lettable ...

FPA maintains stance on commission ban

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... continue that path," he said. "It's not as if they make the change and then when another government comes in they say 'ok, let's go back'. It's better for consumers and better for business." The Coalition is not supporting the banning of commissions ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... markets again. But did Wall Street care? It's now soooooo over Europe it seems. Uh oh, bad fundamentals not working anymore. Let's try technicals. Yes, ladies and gents, the head and shoulders pattern has not gone away. According to market technicians ...

Let the reporting season begin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
So this is what the markets are like when news go away! Wall Street was a little bit up, so was Europe. Asian equities hopped a tad and Australian shares skipped a beat higher yesterday. Flat was the day in the life of equities markets across the globe ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." Maya Angelou Asia is up, Europe is up, Wall Street is up... for three days straight. But what has changed? Nothing really except for investors and speculators getting ...

SCT chief Furlan talks tough on benefits

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... and if they're super is part of their estate planning they're more likely to have a will. "Maybe there's a case for saying let's pay it to the estate and that will reduce the trustee's burden on making decisions."