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FX trader guilty of $360k fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Brisbane-based resident Brett Tony Best has pleaded guilty to running an illegal managed investment scheme (MIS), which enabled him to dupe more than 200 south-east Queenslanders out of $360,000 in funds. Best, 39, pleaded guilty to one charge of dishonestly ...

Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... have also entered the commodities game and last February announced it intended to increase its commodities investments 16-fold to US$7.2 billion through 2010 as raw materials prices surge to records, according to Bloomberg reports.

Sustainability grows in EMs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... increased rapidly, and these are the funds that indicate that they invest in a sustainable way...this has increased five fold since 2003 to over US$50 billion," she said. The IFC-Mercer report also produced the first rating on ESG practices of fund managers ...

Babcock & Brown folds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
Babcock & Brown Limited has called in the administrators after its New Zealand investors rejected the company's plan to restructure some of its debt. In an ASX statement released this morning, Babcock & Brown has appointed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... Financial Planning (AMPFP), one of the largest planning groups in the country, is poised to attract more planners to its fold after plans to roll out a new IT system and the introduction of more consumer-friendly advice documents. Michael Guggenheimer ...

Syncsoft expands team after Superpartners deal

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Tech company Syncsoft is expanding its team with nine new staff following last year's major contract win with Superpartners. Syncsoft recently finalised an agreement with Superpartners to replace eight software systems with CapitalX. Riding on the back ...

Nicholas-Applegate's 130/30 gets nod

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... available to Australian investors, lost 3.3 per cent, outperforming the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) Index more than four fold when the index lost 14.4 per cent over a two-year period. "There was a lot of uncertainty during September and October ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... between the value of their house and the amount owed. It becomes the bank's problem. 'Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.' But the banks' problems have now turned around and also became everybody else's ...

Hyperion appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
Hyperion Asset Management has appointed Deborah Beale as chair and added another board member to the fold. Beale replaces Ian Macoun as chair who remains on the board as an executive director. Beale previously served on the board as an independent director ...

Three rich beggars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... financial obligations. The same is true for the other two. All three warned that of a national economic catastrophe should they fold as the lost of millions of jobs reverberates through the entire system. But their display of extravagance - each flying ...