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Fin services shines in Telstra Awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Financial Management Solutions, Aspire Retire Financial Services and Addwealth were named state winners in the annual Telstra Business Awards. New South Wales-based Financial Management Solutions and West Australian-based Addwealth won the Sensis Social ...

The dragon stumbles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
What's this? Wall Street dipped because China's stock market tumbled and commodity prices slumped? Here's Bloomberg's leader, "U.S. stocks fell for a second day as plunging Chinese shares and commodities stoked speculation that the surge in equities ...

Investors shift more money outside super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
The increasing number of government reviews and recent Federal Budget changes to super have prompted clients to boost investments outside of super to fund their retirement, said Centric Wealth advisers. According to Anne-Marie Esler, technical services ...

Plus Capital eyes offshore managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
Third party marketer, Plus Capital, is in talks with three offshore alternative investment managers to provide Australian institutional investors with access to their strategies. Plus Capital represents offshore investment managers that don't have a ...

VFMC suffers portfolio losses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
The $30 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) took the full brunt of the stockmarket slump when it posted a 28 per cent loss in its Australian equities portfolio for the financial year to 31 March - and a 29 per cent loss in international ...

Go for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
The US Federal Reserve's announcement that it is releasing freshly minted greenbacks worth US$1.25 trillion to rescue the convulsing economy threatens the return of high inflation when the current global financial crisis is but a painful memory. Inflation ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
In the Roman calendar, the ides of March refers to the 15th day of the month of March. It was a festive day celebrating the Mars, the god of war. In modern times it has taken on an ominous sense ever since Julius Caesar's assassination on this date ...

Aussie eq FMs shine in bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Australian large cap equity managers that accounted for increasing commodity prices, corporate debt, a surging Australian dollar and rising global inflation weathered the financial storm better than others in the past 12 months. The Standard & Poor's ...

Korean fund administrator hires SmartStream

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
A prominent Korean fund administrator has signed on SmartStream Technologies' TLM Corporate Actions to improve its client services. Shinhan Aitas, a Korean fund administrator that provides various outsourced services to fund managers, will use TLM to ...

Suncorp numbers fail to shine

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
Suncorp's wealth management and general insurance divisions have suffered profit falls due to poor markets and severe weather. In a statement released on the Australian Securities Exchange today, Suncorp confirmed that its wealth management arm reported ...