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Wealth Within targets SMSFs with new platform

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
Financial services firm Wealth Within has inked deals with a number of big-name dealer groups and is looking to target accountants as it goes to market with its first platform offering. Wealth Within executive director Lea Zerbes said that a number ...

RBA red flags SMSF property exposure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... important that those purchasing property maintain realistic expectations of future dwelling price growth." SMSF exposure to hybrid securities is also a source of preoccupation for the RBA, which said that "SMSFs and other retail investors have also been ...

Laminar awarded hedge fund of the year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
... fixed interest fund invests in a range of corporate bonds, bank debt, credit derivatives, bank loans, commercial paper, hybrid securities and mortgage and asset backed securities. It has returned 17% in the 12 months to 31 August and 23.67% annualised ...

Hybrids must better convey risk: ASIC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is cracking down on the misleading marketing of hybrid securities. ASIC has criticised what it terms "misleading labelling" and "unwarranted comparison" of hybrids to less risky products such ...

BGL releases cloud-based SMSF software

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... Ron Lesh described the new software as the first real cloud solution available to SMSF administrators. "Unlike the other hybrid SMSF administration cloud solutions, which are actually desktop applications storing data in the cloud, Simple Fund 360 is ...

Rivkin firm launches managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... development. The new suite of products will include an open mandate listed investment company that holds ASX-listed companies, hybrid securities, preference shares and floating rate notes; similar to the existing Rivkin Local advice product. There will ...

Banks raise $15bn in wholesale markets

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... There is also appetite for Australia's big four banks within the listed debt market with Westpac Banking Corp doubling its hybrid security issue to $1.25 billion on the back of strong retail demand. Meantime, Australia's domestic bond market is proving ...

Investors turn from cash to fixed income: UBS

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
With the market already pricing in 2.5% as the bottom of the cash rate cycle, Abby Macnish associate director with UBS expects 2013 to deliver a steady migration out of cash into fixed income, and then into equities as investor risk appetite continues ...

Not all ETFs are made equal: Lonsec

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... but important differences between ETFs, and the nature of each fund's underlying investment - such as equities, debt or hybrid securities - means returns have the potential to be vastly different," Elsworth noted. "Investors requiring greater certainty ...

Successful Telstra bond issue to open flood gates for big banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
The success of Telstra's $750 million bond issue could pave the way for further issues from Australia's largest companies, according to Lincoln Indictors' Elio D'Amato. The five-year coupons, the first from the company since 2005, were sold to the market ...