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Quattro to distribute HK giant's products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
Quattro Asset Management has come to an arrangement with Hong Kong non-bank financial services juggernaut, Sun Hung Kai Financial to distribute the firm's products to Australian investors. Sun Hung Kai Financial is a Quattro Asset Management stakeholder ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
The Australian share market was over one per cent in the red at noon following a weak performance on Wall street and a decline in metals overnight. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 1.19 per cent, or 84.0 points lower, at 5435.0, while ...

WHK on buying spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Listed financial services firm WHK Group has snapped up an additional five companies in its latest attempt to expand its operations across Australia. Earlier this week, WHK confirmed it had purchase three accounting firms and two finance broking businesses ...

LUCRF ups insurance stakes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Industry super fund LUCRF Super has increased its death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) insurance - a decision that will see its members obtain more than double the cover at the same premium rates. Under a revived deal with ING Life effective ...

JV eases Opes Prime woes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
MDS Financial Group and Box Red have purchased the operating systems and client base of online brokering service, Trader Dealer, severing ties between the online stockbroker and Opes Prime. The purchase enables Trader Dealer to provide "execution only ...

ATO warns on super loans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
The Australian Taxation Office has cautioned trustees of self managed superannuation to be careful about the types of loan arrangements they get into. In a taxpayer alert issued on Friday the ATO said trustees had to ensure that in entering into a loan ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Returned Services League (RSL) has urged the government to reject plans to change the military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military ...

Doja faces jail time

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
Former Sydney financial adviser Tunde Doja was last Friday sentenced to a minimum of three years and eight months imprisonment in the Sydney District Court following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into ...

True Index contains residual risk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
Financial advisers and investors must realise True Index funds are not immune to extreme market events, according to Scott Donald, Russell Investment Group director of fiduciary research. True Index funds aim to replicate an index by investing in an ...

MFS morphs into GEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
MFS Diversified Limited has been renamed to GEO Property Group as security holders yesterday gave the green light for a name swap. The firm flagged the change last month in a bid to distance itself from it's troubled listed business, MFS Limited. "This ...