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Merged planning groups plot Snowball effect

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Snowball Group and Shadforth Financial Group are driving the consolidation agenda with their merger which came about largely thanks to the matchmaking skills of financial planning industry stalwart John Godfrey. The two non-aligned financial advice ...

Investors splash into water rights

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
The $25 billion Australian water entitlements market is proving a lucrative and attractive allure for investors that want to diversify their portfolios with the alternative asset class. Picked to influence current alternatives and mainstream investment ...

Alpha aims to lure planners with flexi gearing

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
Alpha Structured Investments has teamed up with French bank Societe Generale (SG) to create a new flexible gearing product, due to be launched to the Australian market later this month. Financial advisers were invited to a soft launch of the Alpha Super ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Tuesday on strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight. On the ASX 24 at 0721 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 29 points lower at 4,618. In economics news on Tuesday ...

FIA growth leads to Licensee Select

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Financial Index Australia (FIA) has moved in-house services to BT Financial Group's Licensee Select for its licensee solutions, citing strong growth for the outsourcing. The change will affect FIA's ten planning firms with over 35 advisers, who will ...

MTAA awards triple equities mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
MTAA Super has restructured its Australian equities portfolio, awarding close to $800 million of new mandates to three separate fund managers. Ankura Capital has secured a $440 million mandate, while Bennelong Funds Management and Colonial First State ...

Food profits to rise: Macquarie

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The outlook for agriculture is bright with the sector providing a hedge against inflation and population increases set to drive demand, Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management said yesterday. Anthony Abraham, executive director of Macquarie Agricultural ...

Adviser poaching just "noise": AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
AMP refutes claims that its and AXA's advisers are being poached, instead anticipating competition from dealer groups once the merger is complete and even predicting that some advisers may come their way. Speaking at a media event yesterday, Craig Meller ...

Bank profits exceed 25 per cent

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Australia's bank profit margins exceeded 25 per cent with the big four earning more than 80 per cent of total interest income, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority said in its Quarterly Bank Performance Statistics report today. The big four ...

New ETFs hit booming market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Exchange-traded fund provider Vanguard launched three new funds yesterday as the popularity of the product explodes. At an investor presentation yesterday to mark the launch of three new ETFs, Vanguard said there had been a 70 per cent increase in the ...