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ASIC recovers $24m for Westpoint victims

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... investors. In all, investors are expected to see a return of about $100 million of the $388 million in losses as a result of the above settlements, returns from liquidators and returns from companies not in liquidation. Further Westpoint proceedings ...

Advisers champion responsible investing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... Responsible Investment Conference. "There's a core group of IFAs in the UK that are very committed and very vocal and punch above their weight in terms of demanding high standards," she said. F&C Investments, which runs an "ethical fund" called the F&C ...

More governance needed on remuneration

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... pay for a top 100 CEO dipped 0.2 per cent from 2008 to $4.04 million. However, the $4.04 million is still 23.4 per cent above the median CEO total pay in 2006. The research also found that while the likes of Frank Lowy (Westfield Group) and Marius Kloppers ...

Fidelity Australia nearly doubles FUM

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... per cent return. Fidelity said the fund has provided investors with an annualised active return after fees 4.6 per cent above the S&P/ASX200 per annum over the past five years. Fidelity Australia chief executive Gerard Doherty attributed the strong flows ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... would not fall back into recession. The benchmark Nikkei closed up 187.19 points, or 2.05 per cent, at 9,301.32 points, above its 25-day moving average of 9,229, with some market participants citing buying by domestic investors and short-covering of ...

Austock improves, but remains in the red

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... targeting Australian Asian communities through the growth of its Asian desk. Funds under advice in the division were now above $143 million. Meanwhile, funds under management within its Austock Property business stood at $578 million. The company said ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... Pessimism has taken the Dow back down below 10,000 while we slept. And to think that only four months ago (April), it broke above and 11,000 and was widely expected to continue climbing to bigger and better things! Not anymore. This time, "we'll never ...

Investors call planners to charge performance-based fees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... proposals to ban commissions by July 2012, the difference of fees charged for both models can sometimes be negligible. "Above a certain threshold of assets... the actual advice fees, not counting the product and administration fees, is almost always ...

Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... unsold new homes, up from 8.0 months in June. Nevertheless, the shock factor appears to have diminished. Wall Street closed above the zero line overnight. Thankfully, someone somewhere is seeing some good in these awful housing stats. This one according ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... administration to re-stimulate the housing sector or for the economy to grow strong enough to create jobs - or all of the above. Because of the chicken and egg relationship of housing and the economy, the last option is probably doubtful. The weak housing ...