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Structured products right for the risk-aware

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
For risk- savvy investors structured products can take advantage of market upturns, while protecting the portfolio as a whole. This is despite the declining appetite for structured products, said George Lucas, managing director, Instreet. "It's not ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
It's another one of those days - those days of rumours and gossips and whispers. And oh, digging around for reasons on why the glass is half empty. It was risk on after cyberspace got wind of ECB council member Ewald Nowotny telling Bloomberg that the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a mixed lead from Wall Street where investors digested strong earnings reports from several major companies and weaker-than-expected numbers on new-home sales. Overseas financial markets were also ...

BT launches EOFY tax tool

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
BT Wrap has launched an online tool for tax statements in response to adviser demand to make end of financial year processing times and statement delivery more seamless. The new online Estimator Tool sits on BT Wrap's website and is designed to support ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket opened sharply lower following gloomy leads from markets overnight and disappointing earnings results in the US. At 1010 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 37.7 points, or 0.91 per cent, at 4,095.5 ...

Too many managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Australia has an oversupply of fund managers and the fight to survive will cause many to review their pricing and business models. Brett Himbury, chief executive of IFM, said the funds industry is about to go through a correction as firms confront how ...

Kinks in Stronger Super armour

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
Consolidation resulting from Stronger Super has the potential to lead to perverse outcomes, according to one Russell Investments executive. Speaking at the Russell Australian Investment Summit on Friday, Graham Harman, director of Capital Markets Research ...

Offshore tax havens bank $32tr: report

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
A recent report has found that ultra high net worth people around the world may be holding as much as $32 trillion in offshore tax havens, depriving governments worldwide of as much as $250bn in tax revenues every year. The report's author told the ...

CYRE Trilogy, APFG still fighting

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
The management of the Australian Property Growth Fund is refusing to disclose its register of unit holders in defiance of an Australian Securities & Investments Commission order, said the directors of CYRE Trilogy. Bank of Queensland Chairman Neil Summersen ...

AIMA helping super funds plan HF moves

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
The Alternative Investment Management Association will be working with local super funds on scenario analyses for moving more funds to suitable Australian alternative managers. Recent data from administrator GlobeOp showed that in June hedge funds globally ...