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Super funds lead advice charge

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
Super funds will lead innovation in the advice sector as intra-fund advice grows, leaving many advisers to play catch up, according to tech firm, Provisio Technologies. A number of superannuation funds now deliver advice with greater efficiency than ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
"Those who don't remember history are condemned to repeat it." How often have we heard this - and variation of this -- "wise saying" before? Many, many, many times. But for financial markets, remembering history on the second week of March 2010 has ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Guess what? It's the bull market's first anniversary today! Hip..hip... Hooray Virgina! You and I have kept up the faith despite being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street ...

More SMSFs comply with ATO rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Michael D'Ascenzo, commissioner of taxation at the Australian Tax Office, has commended the self managed super fund (SMSF) industry after the number of SMSF trustees that lodged their returns on time rose 11 per cent on the prior lodgement period. Speaking ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
"Efxaristo para poli!" That's Greek for thank you very much. What in the world could possibly make European Central Bank President (ECB) Jean-Claude Trichet abandoned the summer sunshine in Sydney - and the company of the 23 other central representatives ...

SSFS ushers Asian Century in $1bn global equities overhaul

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
State Super Financial Services has made a decisive move into emerging markets by carving out 10 per cent of its global equities allocation and transferring it into emerging markets strategies. Oscar Fabian, chief investment officer and general manager ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices and commodities prices mostly lower, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive in afternoon trade and the price of gold was higher. At ...

Platforms bounce back 7.9 pc

Platform funds under advice jumped 7.9 per cent during the June quarter, recording their first lift in 18 months. The combined platform market at $331 billion is, however, still down 19 per cent from its $410 billion September 2007 peak, noted Rainmaker ...

Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
You know Australia is back to normal when "they will, they won't" speculation on interest rates returns a major sport. This is usually accompanied by "they will earlier, they will later" betting with every economic data release providing evidence for ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
The gospel according to the US Federal Reserve: Economic activity -- "levelling out". Financial market conditions -- "improved further". Treasury buyback -- expiry extended another month to October (just in case). Fed funds rate - near zero for an extended ...