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Super fund recovery 6pc but big funds fail to fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
Super fund returns for the year to October have recovered to an average 6.6 per cent but it's the small funds and not the majors leading the way. SelectingSuper's latest performance survey found funds have recovered half of what they lost, since at ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
The Australian share market has lost some of its early gains but remains higher at noon as stocks follow positive leads from markets in the United States and Europe. At 1201 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 20.3 points, or 0.43 per cent, at ...

Bell Potter faces $22m class action

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Bell Potter Securities is facing wrongful conduct allegations in a class action from over 50 clients, claiming losses of approximately $22 million. The class action, held in the Federal Court of Australia, alleges that Bell Potter encouraged clients ...

Planners select HUB24

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
The managed accounts sector wins a fresh batch of advocates after unified managed accounts provider HUB24 signed five dealer groups, representing $650 million in assets, to its UMA platform. The dealer groups, some using managed accounts for the first ...

BlackRock appoints head of iShares Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
BlackRock has promoted Mark Oliver to head of its iShares exchange traded fund (ETF) business in Australia. Oliver has been with BlackRock since 2008 and was most recently head of strategic partnerships. Prior to this, he led BlackRock's distribution ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
The Australian market is receiving generally negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with most key markets lower, although precious and base metals were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0714 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was ...

Rise of Asia bonds: Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
Asia's appeal as multi-trillion dollar bond hub is set to accelerate as the region primes itself to become a key alternative funding source for investors, said the chief financial officer of the $147 billion Temasek Holdings. Leong Wai Leng, chief financial ...

DSPC makes another discount AUI offer

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
Australian Unity Investments' (AUI) has urged investors to see a financial adviser before considering the latest discounted offer from Direct Share Purchasing Corporation (DSPC). DSPC has offered AUI mortgage funds investors a follow up discounted share ...

Insurance drives new client wins: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
An annual financial adviser survey shows that nearly half of advisers' total risk income this year came from new clients, giving fresh evidence that risk-related advice is core to a typical financial planning business. The CoreData Risk Study 2010 ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... they've even hiked interest rates last month - the first in three years! Consumer price inflation - up 4.4 per cent in October - maybe at 25-month highs but it had been higher before. It reached 8.7 per cent in February 2008. Yes, that was in the midst ...