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The miseducation on research

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Fallout from recent high profile collapses among property-based investment groups such as Westpoint, Fincorp, ACR and Bridgecorp, and now with Basis Capital, highlights that investors sometimes don't quite understand the role research plays in helping ...

Rate hike to launch dollar?

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... "Admittedly, investor risk-appetite remains poor, which is why we don't expect the RBA rate hike today to put a rocket under the AUD." Where the AU/US 2-year bond yield spread has widened to 190bp from150bp a month ago, NabCapital believes that if risk-appetite ...

ASX updates corporate governance guidelines

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
The Australian Securities Exchange Corporate Governance Council today released its first update to the ASX's Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations since 2003. To be launched officially this afternoon by Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer ...

Planners move from vanilla to neapolitan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
An increasing trend for planning groups to add services continues to emerge with ING's Millenium3 purchasing Mawson Group and Lachlan Wealth Management's PMG Group purchasing accountancy business Smith, Peacock and Henshaw (SPH). ING can already draw ...

Hiking partners: Aussie dollar and Kiwi inflation

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... yesterday that he wasn't surprised by the value of the A$ considering the level of commodity prices. He also noted that the AUD wasn't much different against other floating currencies like the EUR and the CAD and was a little lower than average against ...

DSTi helps dealer groups audit easy

Financial services solutions provider DST International (DSTi) is making it easier for financial companies to track changes made to client records after the group expanded the Database Audit Module of its HiPortfolio/3 product. The feature enables the ...

ATO launches SMSF info service

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
The BetterSuper inspired push for self-managed super funds (SMSF) has prompted the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to launch a regular newsletter service to alert trustees about upcoming management and legislation issues that will affect them. "We ...

Super returns climb back driven by global shares, property

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
... per cent, and property climbing up from 21.9 per cent to 25.3 per cent. And all this was despite a 2.6 per cent surge in the AUD/USD exchange rate. Not-for-profit funds have continued their dominance among diversified investment choices taking out seven ...

Aon renews vows with AIG

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... It was also recently awarded a five star rating from independent research firm Heron Partnership. The trust currently has AUD$1.6 billion in assets, 60 000 members and more than 600 participating employers.

Compliance pushes SMSFs in new direction

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
Increased compliance burdens for self-managed super funds are fuelling a push into platforms, SMAs and wraps, according to MLC's general platforms manager, Anthony Waldron, and Arthur Naoumidis, managing director of Praemium. "(On) the two-to-three-year ...