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Platypus wins court case

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
A Victorian Supreme Court Justice ruled in favour of Platypus Asset Management yesterday, in its dispute with a former employee. Philip Pepe was employed as a senior analyst at Platypus from April 2006 to October 2007. In August 2008 he filed a claim ...

ASIC clears up online disclosure rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
ASIC has made a bid to clear the uncertainty of what is legal - and what's not - when planners and financial service providers deliver online disclosure to clients. Financial services providers that send disclosures such as statements of advice to clients ...

CMC taps pattern recognition for traders

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
CMC Markets has launched a new pattern recognition tool to help traders sort data, identify patterns and ease trade execution. The pattern recognition software has been integrated into an existing platform rather than using a third party provider. Pattern ...

Move beyond benchmarks: GMO

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... sell risky assets in early 2009 when volatility was high, he said. "Well congratulations you've just broken the most basic rule of investing, because you are now buying high and selling low," he said. Montier acknowledged that the contrarian approach ...

CFD newcomer backs tighter ASIC rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
Capital CFDs tackles Australia's contracts-for-difference (CFD) market despite ASIC tightening its regulations. Australia's CFD market, reportedly the second largest globally, was hit hard during the GFC with many investors exposed to the drawbacks ...

HiPortfolio helps Suncorp adopt TOFA changes

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
Suncorp Life now supports the new Taxation of Financial Arrangements (TOFA) through its administration platform, HiPortfolio. HiPortfolio is TOFA-ready, following its recent multi-million dollar project completed in conjunction with the DST GS Advanced ...

Shorten to tighten tax agent rules for planners

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
The government is looking to improve the regulation of financial planners who offer tax agent services, following the release of an options paper today. In a media statement, assistant treasurer and minister for superannuation, Bill Shorten, said financial ...

Opt in rules not up for debate

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
The hung parliament is all that stands in the way of controversial "opt in" requirements being adopted, if comments from a senior Treasury department official are anything to go by. Speaking at the FPA conference on the Gold Coast, Dr Richard Sandlant ...

New rules for investment advisers: SEC

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing new rules to strengthen the regulator's oversight of investment advisers. The SEC's proposed rules will implement provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. This includes ...

Schroders surges, shuns Gartmore

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
Schroders, the UK's largest listed fund manager, reported strong results overnight but ruled itself out of contention for troubled rival manager Gartmore. Schroders reported 9 month pre-tax profits of 282.7 million, up over 250 per cent on the corresponding ...