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ASIC boosts online MIS registration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
ASIC is inviting businesses to lodge applications for the registration of managed investment schemes online. The online forms are part of ASIC's ongoing commitment to provide accessible lodgement services to assist business. They include Form 5100 Application ...

RIAA adds more members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
Super Safeguard, The FTSE Group - Australia and Trucost are the new members of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). UBS Wealth Management financial adviser, Bernie Connolly; Fortuna Capital Partners consultant, Brookes McTavish ...

Shenkman Capital now represented Down Under

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Riding the wave of interest in credit investment opportunities, US credit research specialist Shenkman Capital Management now has representation in Australia. "Credit is clearly a focus for many investors at this time, there is an expectation that credit ...

IOOF quadruples platform reach after Skandia buy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
Financial services group IOOF climbs through the ranks of platforms with the largest share of the non-aligned adviser market when it acquired Skandia Australia and Intech, a move that quadruples its slice of the sub-segment and adds more than $8 billion ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
The Australian stock market was at a five year low at noon, dragged down by QBE Insurance and Rio Tinto as uncertainty about the US government's response to its weak economy weighed on prices. At 1200 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was ...

Invest in debt, but carefully

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
In the aftermath of the credit crunch, big opportunities are presenting themselves in the debt markets provided investors know where to look and how to choose between them. "Markets are now ridiculously cheap. Investors are asking what happened, why ...

Custodians to play bigger role on risk mgmt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Custodians can best serve their clients following last year's crisis by working more closely, over the long term, to develop custodial processes that can highlight risk management issues before they pose serious problems. Jane Perry, head of JP Morgan ...

A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Global managed futures giant Superfund sets up an investment centre in Sydney, open to the public, to help investors understand how managed futures work. Set up in Austria back in 1995, Superfund has grown to manage more than US$1.4 billion in assets ...

Plusses and minuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Australia is back in a situation where it is either looking at a half full or a half empty glass. Latest statistics released over the past few days have something for everybody. Glass half-full. Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported ...

No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
'All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say Yo Goober! Where's the meat? I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.' Homer Simpson. Equity investors who came to US Treasury ...