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All APRA funds to offer SMSF-style choice

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
All Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated superannuation funds will offer direct investment options for members within five years, according to former Minister for Superannuation Nick Sherry. The retired politician anticipated ...

Market Wrap PM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher. At 1015 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was UP 26.1 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 4,999.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 26.2 points, or 0.5 per cent, HIGHER at 4,994.2. On the ...

Interest rate to fall to 2.5%: NAB

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
The Reserve Bank will slash the base rate by 50 basis points in two cuts before the end of 2013 the National Australia Bank (NAB) has predicted. NAB group chief economist Alan Oster told the NAB annual private wealth conference in Sydney today that ...

Equipsuper appoints former Goldman Sachs CIO

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... independent member of its investment committee. Cooke has held senior roles with investment houses such as Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney and JP Morgan. Equipsuper chair Andrew Fairley said that Cooke will bring a deep investment knowledge and experience ...

PIS award financial adviser of the year

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... Top Accounting Practice, which was given to Cordner Wilson Ludeke, while Paul Wright was awarded High Achiever. Courtneay Smith, also from Robina Financial Solutions, was given the Paraplanner of the Year award and Kane Duong, from Glass House & Sky ...

Bissaker sets sights on Big Four market share

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
New head of Virgin Money Australia (VMA) Brian Bissaker said the tie-up with Bank of Queensland (BOQ) would lay the ground for an assault on the Big Four bank's market share. Bissaker told Financial Standard there would be significant additional investment ...

ASIC targets SMSF confidence tricksters

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will target 'unscrupulous' advisers trying to make quick money out of the fast-growing self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) industry. Addressing a packed room at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney ...

CFS fund celebrates 5-year anniversary with aplomb

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
The Colonial First State Wholesale Equity Income Fund has marked its five-year anniversary with strong performance figures. Since its launch at the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the strategy has had significantly lower volatility than the ...

ANZ appoints regional private banking head

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
ANZ has appointed Arjan de Boer as head of private banking, North East Asia. Based in Hong Kong, de Boer will oversee ANZ's private banking business in Hong Kong and Taiwan. His experience in private banking in Asia includes 14 years at ABN Amro, where ...

ETFs boom on SMA model portfolios

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) holdings on OneVue's unified managed account (UMA) platform have tripled in the last nine months, new data shows, and migration to model portfolios highlights greater investor sophistication. The spike on OneVue's platform ...