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AFAC and APESB launch fresh debate on fiduciary duty

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MEDIA RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Major accountant-based financial advisory firms including Count Financial, PIS and Securitor have formed a new alliance in response to draft proposals from the accounting ethical standards board banning its members from charging asset-based fees from ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Perennial Investment Partners' international equities division has invested in oil and gas drilling equipment companies ahead of a predicted worldwide oil rig upgrade following the BP disaster. Clay Carter, head of international equities at Perennial ...

Cbus and St Hilliers tag housing project

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
Cbus Property, a subsidiary of the $13 billion super fund Cbus, and St Hilliers are teaming up to launch a marketing campaign for a $148 million luxury apartment development project in Darlinghurst. According to a press statement, St Hilliers and Cbus ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
The Australian market is expected to open higher after a rebound on Wall Street and on most major world markets on Tuesday. At 0726 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 67 points higher at 4,275. In economic ...

Count expands lending

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
Count Financial is pushing ahead with its lending expansion plans despite calling off talks with Mortgage Choice three months ago. Andrew Gale, chief executive and managing director at Count, said given the group's practices are primarily accounting ...

BRW Rich 200 lists fin services best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
Platinum's Kerr Neilson, ex-Macquarie chief Allan Moss and Maple-Brown Abbott co-founder Robert Maple-Brown led the charge of financial services execs who made it to this year's BRW Rich 200. Platinum manages more than $17 billion in client funds spread ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Australian shares are set to open lower after Wall Street fell on Friday as a downgrade of Spain's credit rating added to worries about the eurozone's financial woes. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was ...

Securitor awards top practices and advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
Westpac-owned dealer group Securitor caps its annual conference this month with the handing of awards to their best practices and financial advisers in 2009. Brad Cooper, chief executive of BT Financial Group, the wealth management business of Westpac ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
The broad Australian share market index at noon on Monday had pushed upwards through the 5,000-point barrier for the first time since the global financial crisis. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 33.4 points, or 0.68 per cent, at ...

Count names new chief, profits bounce back

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
Count Financial has appointed a Deloitte actuarial expert, Andrew Gale, as the new CEO, a day before it posted a surge in half-year profits and funds under advice go back to levels reached before the global financial crisis. Gale has been appointed ...