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Countplus buys super law firm

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Countplus increases its presence in Western Australia with the acquisition of Perth-based legal business SuperGeneration by its WA subsidiary McDonald Pynt Lawyers (MPL). SuperGeneration will receive 533,600 Countplus shares, priced at $1.50 each, and ...

Advisers must justify complex products: ASIC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... be wary of 'fake broking firms' scamming money from investors. Many operate under the pretense of an MDA, whereby a broker buys and sells financial products such as shares, contracts for difference and foreign exchange contracts at their discretion on ...

NAB buys 35pc stake in AREA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... cent in 2010 with an 11.9 per cent run in the fourth quarter. AREA has current assets under management of $6.6 billion and buys low-cost real estate that needs improvement before upgrading it. In the US it has a number of investments including nearly ...

Hunter Hall launches two equity funds

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... returns of 15 per cent, buying cheap handpicked global stocks. Hunter Hall's style of investing is distinctive, it very rarely buys stocks without having visited the company and spent time with its management team. Despite modest looking annual returns ...

New Berkshire fund buys Buffet

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
Investment group JB Global is offering a second capital-protected fund investing in Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire has produced an average compounded gain of 20.2 per cent in book value every year since 1965. Buffet, the world's most ...

Alphinity grows new business

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... The five-strong team then took over two of Challenger's funds that were previously managed in-house. The firm, which only buys companies listed in the ASX200, has been underweight banks, a move which has benefited their Concentrated fund particularly. ...

Virgin Money launches direct life insurance product

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... starting price matches the average premium for standard default cover for not-for-profit super fund group insurance which buys up to $175,000 sum insured. However, according to Virgin Money's insurance website calculator, for a 45 year old non-smoker ...

Speck of sand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... pharaohs. Its biggest trading partners are the United States, China and Germany. Based on the CIA Factbook's figures, Egypt buys a puny 0.3 per cent of these countries' total exports. No big loss on the global economy and financial markets if Egypt turns ...

Value Partners top Asia fund tables

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
Value Partners, the fund manager underpinning Sydney-based Premium China Fund, has once again scored top rankings in the Thomson Reuters Extel Surveys. The fifth annual survey results asked executives of several hundred firms including brokers, broking ...

QBE buys CUNA Australia

ASX RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
QBE Insurance Group has acquired the Australian operations of US-owned CUNA Mutual Group in a deal that increases the insurer's market share in the credit union sector. The purchase, which is still subject to regulatory approval and won't be completed ...