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Finsia launches fin services credential

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... conduct in financial services including poor financial advice, excessive remuneration and the collapse of managed investment schemes. The credential is designed to be inline with the proposed regulatory reforms including a fiduciary duty for financial ...

Short form PDS gets green light

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... prescribing short and simple product disclosure documents for margin loans, superannuation and simple managed investment schemes that commenced earlier this week. The minister for finance and deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, said the product disclosure ...

Great Southern investors fight back

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... including loans provided by Adelaide Bank. The class action covers 1,700 investors in Great Southern's managed investment schemes who invested in 2005 or later. These include cash investors as well as borrowers who invested in forestry, olive, almond ...

Gunns freezes MIS offerings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... Southern pulpwood schemes. In a statement released late last month, Gunns Limited reported appetite for managed investment schemes was constricted - prompting the firm to withdraw offering MISs at least until the end of the financial year. "The board ...

Industry prepares for new advice era

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... are set to take effect on July 2012, if they become law, and will apply to all financial products (managed investment schemes, superannuation and margin loans), but "initially" excluding risk insurance. The last time the government introduced massive ...

Debt disclosure to revive agribusiness

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... investor confidence. This week corporate regulator ASIC released a consultation paper on how agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) can improve their disclosure policies so that retail investors can make informed decisions on their agribusiness ...

RFM to bring cashflow back to Great Southern MIS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Breaking out from the usual tradition of failed managed investment schemes being wound up, the newly-appointed responsible entity of two Great Southern almond schemes are giving investors another option that could get them more of their capital back. ...

ASIC blocks Tankstream

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... in various Centro MCS property syndicates in November 2009. The Centro MSC syndicates are registered managed investment schemes, with total assets under management of approximately $1.5 billion as at 30 June 2009. In return for their interests in the ...

Securitor adds planners and expands research

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... research focus is part of an overall strategy to retain a broad Approved Product List (APL) that includes Managed Investment Schemes (MIS) and property funds. "We have broad APLs and we haven't changed that construct post merger. We've enhanced the quality ...

RBC Dexia wins Aberdeen mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... around $20 billion for a range of global and domestic clients including listed investment companies, managed investment schemes and segregated mandates.