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Planners make their budget wishes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
As the Federal Government goes into budget lockdown, financial advisers have named their dearest wishes - and it's not for free set top boxes. Concessional caps, tax concessions for advice fees and a cut in the company tax rate were at the top of the ...

Trio compo draft regulations released

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
Superannuation funds have until next Monday to have their say on regulations governing the levy to raise $55 million in compensation for victims of the Trio Capital fraud. Funds will be exposed to a maximum impost of $500,000 down to a minimum of $50 ...

ASX fines broker for bad behaviour

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
The Australian Stock Exchange has imposed a $75,000 fine on broking house IMC Pacific for behaviour that left disorderly markets in two securities, including QBE shares trading at less than half of one cent, it said yesterday. The stock exchange said ...

New index pinpoints volatility, products on way

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Standard & Poor's has developed a new risk-control index to maintain volatility of 12 per cent, with UBS to deliver new structured products based upon it, it said today. Volatility on the S&P/ASX 200 stocks had reached 23 per cent over the past three ...

Super fund drives member awareness

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Truckies, bus drivers and couriers will soon be very aware of who manages their super if all goes to plan for transport industry superannuation fund TWUSUPER. The industry super fund is putting advertisements on more than 80 billboards around the country ...

Winton Capital wins Future Fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Australia's Future Fund has awarded a new mandate to London-based alternative investment firm, Winton Capital Management. The $74.6 billion Future Fund, set up to help future Australian Governments pay the cost of public sector superannuation liabilities ...

NAB grows FUM despite tough times

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
MLC & NAB Wealth increased their funds under management by 6.8 per cent to $121.9 billion in the year to March and added 241 financial advisers to its ever-growing network, according to half-yearly results released yesterday. The National Australia ...

Planners react badly to FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Financial planners have reacted in fear to the Future of Financial Advice reforms, anticipating less pay for more work - and would pass costs on to clients, research firm CoreData has found. The independent research canvassed the views of 358 advisers ...

Fund managers fail to make the grade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Research house van Eyk says Australian Equities fund managers need to lift their game, recommending only 18 of 65 managers in its latest sector review. Just 12 core and six concentrated strategies were able to earn van Eyk's "A" rating in the Australian ...

ASIC bans "deceptive" planner for five years

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Corporate watchdog ASIC has banned a financial planner for five years after he tricked his clients with shonky advice which included arranging margin loans for them, it said today. ASIC said Ian John Weaver of Clear Island Waters, Queensland, broke ...