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JPMorgan launches IQ Instalment Warrants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
JPMorgan's latest product, IQ Instalment Warrants, allows retail investors to gear up investments across ASX 100, iShares Exchange Traded Funds and State Street's SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Fund. The JPMorgan IQ Instalment Warrants allow investors buy into 50 ...

Perennial boosts insto sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
Boutique investment firm Perennial Investment Partners has appointed former Invesco portfolio manager Matthew Cahill as institutional sales manager. Prior to this position, Cahill worked at Invesco as portfolio manager in the economics, balanced and ...

ATO sends warning to super fund trustees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... moving assets into their funds and failing to report the total value of their portfolio to avoid raising their tax costs. Michael D'Ascenzo, ATO tax commissioner, said the ATO was concerned that superannuation assets are not being properly valued and ...

East Timor Petroleum fund signs JPMorgan

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
JPMorgan extends its custodial reach in Asia-Pacific after being chosen by East Timor's Banking & Payments Authority of Timor-Leste (BPA) as global custodian and administrator for the $3 billion Petroleum Fund. The BPA is the operational manager of ...

Planners set to Ignite the Difference

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) released details of its 2008 National Conference, Ignite the Difference, an event that aims to encourage advisers to distinguish themselves as professionals. The four-day Gold Coast conference in November includes ...

Austock launches planning arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
Austock Group branches out of stockbroking and into financial planning after poaching three former Ord Minnett Financial Planning advisers to join the group. Austock Financial Planning will open for business on June 16 after five former Ord Minnett ...

Vanguard appoints CFO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
Vanguard Investments Australia has appointed Jean-Yves Didier to chief financial officer. Prior to this appointment, Didier worked at AXA Asia Pacific in its Melbourne office and held roles across regional reporting, planning, corporate finance and ...

van Eyk wary of boutique performance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
Investment research firm, van Eyk remains pessimistic on the growing number of investment corporate and independent boutiques ability to outperform during volatile equity markets as the investment manager talent pool shrinks. Nigel Douglas, van Eyk ...

Asia will weather global slowdown: EFIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
The Australian Government's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation's (EFIC) latest report asserts emerging East Asian economies will endure a global economic slowdown due to growing domestic demand and rising intra Asian trade levels. Roger Donnelly ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... index futures contract lost 108 points to 5,352, on a volume of 16,627 contracts. Austock Brokers senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said last night's Wall Street slide and Rio Tinto's commission problems in Guinea have roughed up the market. "It's ...