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FOFA opens estate planning doors

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
More advisers want to move into estate planning and aged care as fee-for-service reforms opens new business opportunities, according to OnePath. Adviser concerns and industry questions have been particularly focused on estate planning and aged care ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... Speaking of uncertainty, if you believe the scaremongers there's another one looming and its name is ' US government shutdown'. Yes Virginia, the Democrats and the GOP are currently scrambling in Washington to forge a compromise on government budget ...

Board seats open for Women in Super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
Women in Super (WIS) continues its push for better representation of women on executive boards, particularly super funds, through a new scholarship program. NSW WIS will fund the attendance of up to four NSW WIS members to a 'Women on Boards' Workshop ...

Pooled funds lose cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
Money is flowing out of managed funds and into bank accounts and independently managed accounts (IMAs), industry watchers said yesterday. According to Rainmaker research, $86.4 billion dollars flowed into bank deposits in the December quarter last year ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... Japanese production in the near term, although the impact on the broader Asian region is expected to be limited." Read again. Yes, there's no reference to the Queen - Queen Qaddafi that is. No MENA. No Europe and not even China where its central bank ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
The wealth management industry should look at sovereign wealth clients as a potential frozen asset risk, an analyst from Colonial First State told Financial Standard yesterday. With civil war raging in Libya and tensions continuing to erupt across the ...

North opens Bluedoor to bright future

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
Thousands of financial advisers will have access to direct equity trading through the North platform after upgrades to its Bluedoor software engine go live on Monday. The new Bluedoor upgrade was described by its developers yesterday as doing for the ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... attention - and their money - particularly when set against the backdrop of what is, at best, slow growing developed economies. Yes Virginia, bring up the subject of emerging markets and in all probability you'll be hearing discussions China... or India... ...

Goldi-jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... momentum and fundamentals argue that what we'll see would just be a continuation of the bulls' rampage. Fundamentals you ask? Yes fundamentals... and in particular, those of the US. For despite the recriminations, critiques or even disgust at America ...

Ex-Macq fund manager gets jail for insider trading

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
The NSW Supreme Court has sentenced a former Macquarie Bank fund manager to two-and-a-half years jail for insider trading. Oswyn Indra de Silva, 37, must serve at least 18 months for 12 illegal transactions he made while employed by Macquarie, ASIC ...