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Super funds continue to recover

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
The SelectingSuper workplace default option index has continued its climb back into positive territory posting a return of 1.90% for the 12 months to end March 2012. This is up slightly from 0.26% at end February, -0.4% at end January and 1.7% at end ...

Instreet launches new structured product

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... independent financial advice sector following the introduction of regulatory reform in the UK's Financial Services Bill in January - its version of Australia's FoFA - as structured product provide a way for advisors to engage clients and have provided ...

ASIC obtains order banning derivatives trading director

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
Australian Securities & Investments Commission action has resulted in Neil William King, formerly of Brighton, Victoria, being removed from the financial services industry for six years. In proceedings brought by Australian Securities & Investments ...

ASIC permanently bans CFD dealer

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
ASIC has permanently banned a former contracts for difference (CFD) dealer following an investigation. ASIC's (Australian Securities & Investment Commission) investigation focused on the conduct of Simon Marcus Gundry, of Mornington, and his online ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... auctions conducted last night saw yields on Spanish 10-year bonds rise to 5.743%, -- up from 5.403% at the last auction in January - while the yield on France's 5-year paper increased to 1.83% from 1.78% it paid last month. It seems like a dive all right. ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
The Gremlins are coming back to haunt. Or so it'll seem as you read reports reporting that, once again, we're doomed. Yes Virginia, you'll be scared off your pants to know that the S&P 500 index posted its biggest weekly loss in 2012. It fell an earth-shattering ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... Jobless claims rose by a bigger-than-expected 13,000 to 380K in the week ended 7 April - the highest level since late January -- and the four-week moving average of claims increased to 368.5K, the highest in a month. The good news is that these levels ...

Social media trials in US continue

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney will continue its exploration into social media with a formal program to follow up on its 600 adviser pilot program. In May last year, Morgan Stanley began testing a pilot program to allow its financial advisers to interact ...

Budget tightening to hit IMR

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
Revenue constraints and an unwillingness to concede reductions in the tax base may impact the timing of the Investment Manager Regime. That was the inference made by Treasury official Rob Heferen at the Senate Standing Committee on Economics yesterday. ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Disappointed at yesterday's report that another QE is not forthcoming? Weep and sulk now for we might not see Ben's green stuff minting machine back ever again - in this current cycle, at least. No sir. Especially not after last night's reports further ...