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US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The US debt-ceiling debacle may give markets a bit of a scare but was unlikely to end in disaster, a portfolio manager for Janus Capital Group said yesterday. US President Barack Obama has warned of impending US economic catastrophe if Congress doesn't ...

Advisers aim for independents over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
Financial planners on the warpath over Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms were given a crash course in political lobbying today by Shadow Minister for Financial Services Senator Mathias Cormann, who told them to target the independents. Speaking ...

Profits fly high on planes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Traditional wisdom leads many investors to avoid airlines. But some of the airline industry's top executives explained at an investment seminar on Monday how owning aeroplanes can be very profitable. Fund executives from Investec's Global Aircraft Fund ...

New tool for institutionals

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
A new web-based portfolio analysis tool has been released by London-based technology firm RBC Dexia Investor Services. The firm, which provides risk and investment analytics to institutional investors, today launched Investment Analytics - Interactive ...

Bank profits exceed 25 per cent

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Australia's bank profit margins exceeded 25 per cent with the big four earning more than 80 per cent of total interest income, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority said in its Quarterly Bank Performance Statistics report today. The big four ...

Investor revolt threatens 30 fund managers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
An action group of disgruntled investors are trying to remove the 30-member management team of Wellington Premium Income Fund. The unit-holder action group says it represents 27 per cent of the investors in PIF and has taken steps to convene a meeting ...

Financial services targeted for data theft

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
The financial services industry is being targeted for data theft, one of the world's foremost experts on hack attacks said today. Tal Be'ery, web research team leader from US-based data protection firm Imperva, said the cyber criminals were following ...

New ETFs hit booming market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Exchange-traded fund provider Vanguard launched three new funds yesterday as the popularity of the product explodes. At an investor presentation yesterday to mark the launch of three new ETFs, Vanguard said there had been a 70 per cent increase in the ...

Deadline tonight for Trio levy submissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Time runs out today for superannuation funds to have their say on regulations governing the levy to raise $55 million in compensation for victims of the Trio Capital fraud. With the impost worked out as a percentage of funds under management and capped ...

Leveraged ETF risk laid bare

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Morningstar's co-head of fund research Tim Murphy caused a stir at the research firm's investment conference when he showed the risks of US-style synthetic ETFs at a panel session in Sydney on Friday. Tom Keenan of iShares Australia and Graham Smith ...