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ASIC bans client adviser for life

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
The regulator has banned a Brisbane-based former client adviser, Roy Ho, from providing financial services for life. Ho, who previously worked at Tricom Futures Services, now known as Stonebridge Futures Services, admitted to using nine client trading ...

Goldman Sachs accused of fraud

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents for fraud relating to subprime mortgages. The SEC is charging Goldman Sachs for defrauding investors by mis-stating and omitting key facts about a ...

NabInvest buys Canadian property boutique

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
National Australia Bank's direct asset management business, nabInvest, has bought Presima, a global REIT boutique fund manager based in Canada. The acquisition is nabInvest's seventh deal since the business was established in October 2007 and its second ...

SMSFs take up superMate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Supercorp Technology reported an 80 per cent take up of its superMate software among new users and confirmed that by February, over 2000 SMSFs were using the service. According to a press statement, the large take-up of the superMate software came from ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... whatever it is, the FSIU's forecast is certainly far closer to what is likely the cycle peak of 5.8 per cent hit last October - closer than even the Federal Government's downwardly revised unemployment rate prediction of 6.75 per cent by the end of this ...

Planning firm to drop commission-based insurance advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
NAB-owned planning group Godfrey Pembroke has set in motion a strategy that will switch all of its planners out of providing commission-based advice on insurance and mortgages. The decision goes against common practice in the planning industry of maintaining ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The Australian stock market had pushed through to an 18 month high at noon, driven by gains in mid- and small-cap stocks. At 1209 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13.5 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 4,967.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

How high and how long

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." These words from Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities, have again been brought to life by two opposing monetary prescriptions by two central banks - further interest rate hikes for the ...

Futuro grows planning network

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Futuro Financial Services has increased its national network by nearly 50 per cent to 93 per cent in the past 18 months. The independent financial planning group had 64 authorised representatives in October 2008 but that number reached 93. The group ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received mostly positive leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street trading higher and copper and oil prices firmer, although gold and silver futures prices were weaker. At 0734 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...