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NAB, ABS insider traders jailed

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
After being charged in 2014 for insider trading, money laundering and abuse of public office, two men have been sentenced to jail. Reportedly Australia's largest insider trading scheme, the two men's activities resulted in profits of roughly $7 million ...

Not over yet for active management

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... and then in the 1990s and beyond it was realised that part of what we thought was alpha was actually 'smart beta' buried inside higher level factors such as momentum or volatility investing. Against these factors, it is very inefficient for fund managers ...

Tightening of super tax concessions far from guaranteed

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... social benefit schemes. "We do attempt to do a revenue gain estimate because that's what government asks for but printed inside it says the estimates 'should be treated with particular caution...these assumptions can be difficult to meaningfully substantiate.' ...

Managed accounts work for insto investors too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... better understand where they are placing their capital. "Pension funds managing their own money need to know what's going on inside their portfolios. InfraHedge focuses on alternatives because that's where the complexity is for super funds," said Kei ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... out. The current a,-172bn bailout runs out on the 28th of this month. Call me a dirty rotten rat, but there's something inside my frontal lobes whispering that perhaps Greece is secretly wishing that between now and the 28th, financial markets tank ala ...

Smarter Money Investments added to BT Wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... fund has been added to the BT Wrap Platform and is now available on six other platforms for advisers and their clients inside and outside superannuation. The Yellow Brick Road (YBR) funds management business rebranded to SMI in September 2014. In 2014 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... Composite gained 12.58 points (0.27 per cent) at 4,667.42. Eyes were on the ECB's policy meeting Thursday, with multiple inside-source reports all but convincing the markets that it would embark on a quantitative easing program of 50 billion euros ($58 ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... tax they pay. The argument is that the system unfairly benefits wealthy SMSF members who pay a lower proportion of tax inside super than outside when compared to lower income earners. SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery has downplayed those concerns ...

Former Moody's analyst guilty of insider trading

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
A former Moody's analyst has pleaded guilty to passing on inside information which enabled a friend to make more than $180,000 trading shares. Daniel Joffe, 37, of Vaucluse, passed on information acquired in the course of his duties to Nathan Stromer ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... succinctly explains the whys and wherefores for the differences among OPEC members' reaction: "The conflicting interests inside OPEC arise from the differences in its members' oil industries and economies. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and other Gulf producers ...