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Maple-Brown Abbott moves into global listed infra

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
Investment manager Maple-Brown Abbott yesterday said it would launch a new global listed infrastructure investment strategy. The investment team for the new strategy will include Andrew Maple-Brown, Steven Kempler, Lachlan Pike and Justin Lannen. All ...

SMSF adviser escapes jail time with suspended sentence

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
A former self-managed superannuation adviser was yesterday sentenced to a suspended year and a half in jail after he tricked clients into buying his own shares. Craig Dangar was yesterday sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court, to concurrent ...

Takeover to drive $8m in savings

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
If a takeover bid for rival The Trust Company is a success, the combined businesses will enjoy $8 million a year in savings, Equity Trustees has told shareholders. Yesterday Equity Trustees said that it would try and buy its competitor The Trust Company. ...

ASIC slaps biggest fine ever

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
Financial services watchdog ASIC has handed out a record fine of $500k to a man who ran a $30 million scam targeting SMSFs. David Hobbs of Nelson, New Zealand, who was described as the "mastermind" behind more than a dozen unregistered offshore managed ...

QE paradox in reverse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... market would have to stop for a pause sometime to catch its breath". Ouch! That's moi slapping the back of my head this time. Yes, you have permission to prefix my last name with the letters W and R one more time. I was wrong! I didn't expect the correction ...

Puke on the punchbowl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
So near, yet so far. Remember those back of the envelope calculations we did yesterday, Virginia? The one which showed that the S&P 500 is almost there - could reclaim the all-time peak it reached in October 2007 by this weekend or at the most by the ...

CFSGAM inflation plus fund targets post-retirement market

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Outcome-orientated investment approaches that target a specified return are well suited to clients in the post-retirement phase of their investment journey, according to CFSGAM's multi asset solutions team. Head of multi asset solutions Epco van der ...

Industrial property funds draw SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
As the cash rate drops to three per cent, Self Managed Super Funds (SMSFs) are turning their attention towards the industrial property market in search for low-risk funds with higher-than-cash returns. Charter Hall Direct Property head Richard Stacker ...

Don't stop me now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... (Village People) "Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time I'm having a ball don't stop me now." - Don't Stop Me Now (Queen) Yes Virginia, we're in disco mood today. For it won't be long now till we get back to it... yes, the summit, I can almost ...

Just another ordinary day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... you follow. But let's put this in perspective. The headline stems from the 0.2% dip in the Euro Stoxx 600 index overnight. Yes, it's just a dip. Yes, it's the third straight day of "dips" -- totalling a heart stopping minus 0.5% overall. Well shiver ...