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Advance Asset Management appoints head of product

Advance Asset Management has appointed Keryn Farrell as head of product. Farrell will be responsible for ensuring the continuation of Advance's development and marketing of a range of products. Working with Advance for over six years as head of operations ...

Companies make smooth IFRS transition: ASIC

Australian companies have made a smooth transition to the Australian equivalent to IFRS, according to an ASIC review into the implementation of the new reporting standards. Jeffrey Lucy, chairman of ASIC, released ASIC's findings. "Transition to AIFRS ...

Super funds pile on global equities

... international equities, supporting recent reports that investors expect potentially higher returns overseas. The steadily depreciating AUD is also fuelling the sentiment shift as the lower dollar will pump the value of any overseas earnings, though the ...

S&P appoint ahead of manager review

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has kicked off 2006 by adding to its fund ratings team and appointing a new associate to lead its March review of the international equities, large cap managers. New fund ratings associate, Marcus Hanel, joins the team from his ...

Saint to solve the SMSF investment strategy nightmare

Financial services group St Clair hopes to reduce the investment strategy paperwork for trustees of Self Managed Super Funds (SMSFs). Dr Norman Sinclair, managing director of St Clair Financial Services, says SMSF trustees need help cutting through ...

Funds resolve ASIC disclosure issues

Several superannuation funds have responded to ASIC's direction for improvements to disclosure documents, saying the "minor" changes have been made and no members had been disadvantaged. ASIC last week issued a statement calling on four superannuation ...

Index for the smart, hedge for the stupid

LA-based investment theory and practice guru Rex Sinquefield entertained, enlightened and provoked the audience at the FPA conference last week when he questioned returns made by hedge funds and called those who invest in them "stupid". "Many people ...

ASIC complaint is minor: Health Super

Health Super, responding to an ASIC direction to improve insurance disclosure, says the areas requiring improvement are minor and have caused no detriment to members. But Health Super have said are, and will fully, co-operate with ASIC. In a statement ...

ASIC chairman talks about governance and er, bullfrogs

In his keynote speech at a legal conference in Melbourne yesterday, ASIC chairman Jeff Lucy drew on a bullfrogs analogy to talk about financial fraud and corporate governance. Lucy said the recent spate of corporate collapses in the country such as ...

Economic Roundup

... weaker-than-expected domestic economic data and a narrowing Australian/US interest rate spread triggered the sell-off, sending the AUD down by 1.5 per cent to US$0.7389 from the previous week's close of US$0.7500. This means the AUD has lost 5.4 per ...