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Securitor to grow planner network

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Dealer group Securitor is looking to grow its network, while rolling out new initiatives to improve the efficiency of its existing businesses. Securitor, owned by BT Financial Group, currently has close to 500 planners and 240 practices within its network. ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Uh-oh, this is the last day for equity investors to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away". An article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some ...

Liquidnet hits $2bn in Q1 trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Equities trading platform Liquidnet reports exchange of $2 billion in blocks of Australian equities in the first quarter of 2011, highlighting the increased appeal on 'dark pool' trading. During the three-month period Liquidnet traded $4.95 billion ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
It's all quiet on the Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 ...

Cavendish, Super Concepts sign with SMARTwrap

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
Cavendish Superannuation and Super Concepts have agreed to be the default administration providers for a SMARTwrap offering for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The two SMSF administration providers have signed a heads of agreement with provider ...

Media Super wants corporate marriage

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
Industry fund Media Super is dressing up to be the belle of the merger ball and is looking to attract corporate funds, casting its eyes towards Fairfax. Ross Martin, chief executive of Media Super, today said that his fund had added new functional capabilities ...

LGS and VFMC join 'green' property movement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
Local Government Super (LGS) and Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) join a global energy efficiency of property portfolio benchmarking foundation. The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) assesses the environmental performance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
Australian stocks have extended gains during the morning, with the gold and materials sector leading the broader market higher at noon. At 1210 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 41.6 points, or 0.87 per cent, at 4,797.4 points, while the broader ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Want a growth stock, a real growth stock? Look no further than our very own Australian dollar. After hitting parity with the once mighty greenback back in October last year, it drowned when this year's floods devastated most of Queensland, parts of ...

SMSFs avg balances hit $1m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
New research from Rainmaker into self-managed super funds confirms that much of what we think we know about the sector is still driven by myths. An analysis the researcher conducted into SMSF figures available from the Australian Taxation Office and ...