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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
The share market is expected open lower on a negative lead from Wall Street and weaker commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down 11 points at 4,977. Today, News Corporation, Commonwealth Bank ...

Industry pleads for greater professionalism

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
The wealth management industry is in transition and now is the time to strive for greater professionalism, said industry identities at the opening session of the IFSA annual conference yesterday. In a panel session which neatly delved into the issues ...

AMP caught on conflicts

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP) has been pulled up by the regulator for giving 300 clients unnecessary or inadequate super switching advice and having inadequate conflicts of interest procedures in place. Only months after the regulator's shadow shopping ...

OptiMix loses portfolio manager

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2006
ING owned multi-manager OptiMix has lost a portfolio manager, with Gavin Shepherd leaving the group to work with IAG Asset Management. Shepherd, portfolio manager and chief investment officer Emmanuel Caligeris' second in charge, has departed to take ...

FuturePlus CEO moves on

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2006
Chief executive officer of FuturePlus, Brett Westbrook, announced that he will step down from his position as head of the $12 billion co-owned fund of the Local Government Superannuation Scheme and the Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme. Westbrook ...

ASIC bans two for their part in failed businesses

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2006
Two New South Wales directors have been disqualified from acting as company directors by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after their involvement in failed companies. ASIC has banned Craig West, a certified practicing accountant ...

Credit Suisse adds to distribution management team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2006
Credit Suisse has announced the appointment of a new director, channel management and direct sales in asset management. Craig Mowll will step into the position and, along with the head of the institutional sales business, John Maragiannis, will spearhead ...

Plan B refutes first mover claims on fee for service

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2006
Perth based financial planning group Plan B has refuted "first mover" claims made by MLC's high end financial planning group Godfrey Pemboke, who last week touted their switch to a purely fee for service remuneration model as a first in the industry. ...

Separate board for Adelaide Managed Funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2006
Adelaide Bank is to create a separate company board to oversee its now $2.3 billion managed funds business. Adelaide Bank said it would establish the independent board for its funds management, to be called Adelaide Managed Funds. The bank said it more ...

True high conviction means big positions: Peters MacGregor

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
Define high conviction. To Peters MacGregor it means holding just eight stocks but backing your positions with more than 60 per cent of your total capital. Peters MacGregor chief executive officer, James Craigie, explained that to his team a high conviction ...