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Insurance made easier for associations and clubs

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
Community associations and sports clubs that group purchase insurance for members could be exempt from insurance seller status and associated regulatory costs in an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) proposal to attack underinsurance. ...

Advisers want transparency from licensees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
Adviser groups charging their franchisees too much is forcing practices to consider switching groups or whether they should set up on their own, said Darren Wise, managing director of Financial Planning Services Australia (FPS). "Some adviser practices ...

Vision Super adds currency manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Industry super fund Vision Super has appointed a second currency manager to its $900 million global equity portfolio, New York based FX Concepts. FX Concepts joins Bridgewater Associates in overseeing Vision Super's foreign currency exposures. Appointing ...

Adelaide leverages a five-star rating

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
Adelaide Bank's Leveraged Equities margin lending product has been awarded a five-star rating by CANNEX, putting it in a group of only four other margin lending products awarded a "superior value" rating by the agency. The award comes on top of a complete ...

AMP Capital Investors grows real estate team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
AMP Capital Investors has appointed a new assistant portfolio manager to its global real estate securities team. Tim Gibson leaves Morgan Stanley to join the AMP Capital Investors team in London. He will be responsible for researching listed European ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
... the June share price index contract was four points higher to 6,197 on a volume of 13,460 contracts. Macquarie Bank associate director Lucinda Chan said the local bourse was being led higher by the energy and resource sectors. "Its mainly the strength ...

LPTs outgun other asset classes in long term: Russell

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
Listed investments outperformed other asset classes over the last 20 years, with Australian shares beating their overseas counterparts, according to the 2007 ASX/Russell Long-Term Investing report. The report found Australian LPTs delivered the best ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
Labour force data released from the ABS today shows that over the last month there was a 10.5 per cent increase in employment in Australia in seasonally adjusted terms so that on an annual basis there was a 2.7 per cent growth in the national workforce. ...

Deutsche Xenon leveraged hedge fund recommended

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
The Xenon Alpha Plus3 (XAP3), the third Australian leveraged hedge fund from the Deutsche Xenon brand, has been rated 'recommended' by Zenith Investment Partners. In recommending the product, Ben Davis, senior investment analyst with Zenith, said the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has raised the issue of the tax treatment of Private Equity firms operating in Australia noting a concern that the increasing level of corporate activity in the private equity space could mean the associated higher levels ...