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Reignited euro crisis prompts gold rush

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
Global traders are rushing to buy gold as the eurozone crisis once again rears its ugly head. The number of traders betting on a rise in the price of the precious metal grew faster than at any point since the onset of the financial crisis, according ...

Combined Super gets MySuper approval

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
Combined Super, previously named Combined Fund, received the authorisation from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to offer a MySuper product. The industry fund for workers in education and related sectors, is one of the first funds ...

GFG Group partners with Attra to boost payment service

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
Electronic payment software company GFG Group has partnered with Australian IT company Attra in a bid to boost service delivery to existing and new clients and increase competitiveness in emerging markets. Attra specialises in providing independent ...

Advisers risk wasting 2013: van Eyk Advice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
Instead of preparing for an onslaught of regulatory change, Australian financial planning businesses are in danger of wasting next year, van Eyk Advice has warned. 'Grandfathering' provisions in the federal government's Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) ...

Prime real estate no longer attractive: LaSalle

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
With the upside from prime commercial real estate looking decidedly limited, investors need to widen the net if they want capital growth from their property portfolio, according to LaSalle's Paul Guest. Global risk aversion since the onset of the financial ...

Westpac calm in face of storm

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Westpac's batten-down-the-hatches approach balance sheet management means it's better suited than its rivals to weather future financial storms. The bank is just emerging from a period of consolidation. Jobs have been cut and efficiencies made but the ...

Triple bypass needed to resurrect NAB's UK business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
It could take years before NAB's 'worthless' UK banking business is restored to anything approaching a reasonable sale price. That is according to Elio D'Amato, chief executive of stock market solutions provider Lincoln Indicators. The underperformance ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
You just gotta love the financial markets -- they don't run out of things to speculate about. With QE speculation over, the guessing game has shifted to whether or not QEs will work to bring back animal spirits and lead to a longer lasting and durable ...

Annuities regaining acceptance: Challenger

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
Life annuities sales have increased rapidly following the GFC's onslaught on retirement assets, but investors and advisers are still wary about what happens to their capital if they don't live long enough to exhaust the annuity. "We now sell in a month ...

CIO and COO award winners named

FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
It is usually the chief executive that gets the spotlight, but last night the country's top chief investment officer and chief operation officer for fiduciary funds got their time in the sun. Steve Merlicek, chief investment officer of IOOF, was honoured ...