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Value has its risks in emerging markets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
Recent volatility in global financial markets is causing institutional investors to increase allocations to emerging market equities but there are risks involved, according to an emerging markets specialist. Global emerging markets fund management firm ...

Paragem sells dealer services to netwealth

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
Independent service provider Paragem has sold its dealer services arm to privately owned platform provider netwealth. The company said the sale would allow it to focus on growing Paragem Wholesale AFSL (PWA), "at a time when regulatory change is driving ...

Advisers go mobile with Macquarie

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
Financial advisers using Macquarie Adviser Services will now be able to gain secure access to clients' accounts on the move, with the launch of a new mobile version of the Macquarie Access online portal. Macquarie Access Mobile will also enable advisers ...

Former financial adviser gets three years jail time

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
A former Sydney financial adviser has been jailed for three years on six fraud charges. Alan Leslie Brown of Lugarno pleaded guilty in May to one count of obtaining money by deception, one count of using a false instrument and four counts of dishonest ...

APRA: Investment world still clouded with uncertainty

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
Most superannuation funds earned positive returns at the end of this financial year for the second year in a row, thanks to a recovery in equity markets and higher fixed interest earnings over much of 2010/11. But, warns APRA, there are dangers ahead. ...

Private equity activity improves: research

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
Private equity and venture capital fund managers have invested record highs in Australian companies in the past three years according to the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. The annual report into the primary activities of ...

APRA accepts EU from former Trio director

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has accepted an enforceable undertaking from the remaining Trio Capital director David O'Bryen. Under the terms, O'Bryen will not act as a trustee or as a responsible officer of a body corporate that is ...

van Eyk adds UBS-HALO to the Blueprint Australian Shares Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
The addition of the UBS-HALO Australian Share Fund to van Eyk's Blueprint Australian Shares Fund is part of plans to move more of the fund into concentrated, high conviction strategies, according to the company. Head of ratings at van Eyk, Matthew Olsen ...

Fidelity: Government intervention cause for concern

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
Fear of government intervention has created a climate of corporate anxiety for Asian and European companies despite healthy balance sheets, according to new research. A Fidelity survey of more than 110 of its research analysts across the two continents ...

Australian Custodial Services Association appoints new chair

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
The managing director of BNP Paribas Securities Services Australia & New Zealand has been appointed the new chair of the Australian Custodial Services Association. Pierre Jond takes over from incumbent Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) ...