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ipac Securities-owned firm expands with two acquisitions

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
ipac securities-owned firm, TFS Financial Planning, has acquired two QLD financial planning firms in Atherton and Townsville as part of its QLD-expansion plans. Townsville firm, Financially Yours, has $86 million in funds under advice (FUA) while Magnitude ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Australian stocks have opened slightly higher after mixed leads from offshore bourses kept investors wary ahead of the start of the local earnings season. Wall Street ended lower after US gross domestic product (GDP) data missed expectations - despite ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Australian stocks have opened slightly higher after mixed leads from offshore bourses kept investors wary ahead of the start of the local earnings season. Wall Street ended lower after US gross domestic product (GDP) data missed expectations - despite ...

Property-reliant SMSFs face potential risks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... recourse borrowing rules by the Australian Taxation Office in September 2011. "It's not a bad idea if you are a business owner and you're buying a property to draw on the business and then leasing it out," said superannuation director Andrew Yee. "It ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
Australian stocks have opened slightly higher after mixed leads from offshore bourses kept investors wary ahead of the start of the local earnings season. Wall Street ended lower after US gross domestic product (GDP) data missed expectations - despite ...

PJC concedes FOFA amendment may be warranted

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... amendment to section 963B of the draft legislation concerning trusts. "Because of the nature of a superannuation trust, the owner of a policy can only ever be a trustee - the owner can never be a member of the fund and that's why you have that discrepancy," ...

SMSFs shift focus to property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
SMSF trustees are slowly embracing property investments for fund investment strategies after the passing of limited recourse borrowing rules, although cash still holds allocation majority. According to information released in the latest Multiport SMSF ...

Fidelity backs move to empower shareholders

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Asset management giant Fidelity Worldwide Investment has come out in favour of UK Prime Minister David Cameron's calls for more transparency on executive pay, bonuses and severance packages. Speaking to the BBC earlier this week, Cameron said there ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... added 5.4 per cent on the news. Retailers were largely flat, with Specialty Fashion Group becoming the latest fashion brand owner to downgrade its profit forecasts after sales for the six months to December fell 0.5 per cent compared to last year. Operating ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... essentially unchanged on Monday. Steep losses were posted in London, however, by US-based cruise ship operator Carnival, the owner of a luxury liner that ran aground late on Friday off the Italian coast with the loss of at least six lives. London's benchmark ...