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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 ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Brace yourselves people for this would be a longer-than-usual piece. Get that Monday-itis off your systems. There's work to be done, money to be made! During my weekend reading, I came across an article by a fellow named Danny Furman. His resume says ...

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 ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Surprise, surprise! There were more negative/depressing data releases over the past 24 hours than over the past few "days of fear" combined, yet most equity markets ended on the up and up. No Virginia, I'm not talking about ol' Dominique Strauss-Kahn ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The Australian dollar was higher at noon, as news that Japan had fallen into a technical recession failed to spook currency traders. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at 106.51 US cents, up from 106.24 cents on Wednesday. Since 0700 AEST ...

Second Fincorp director not guilty

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Fincorp company director, Jacob Quigley, has been found not guilty, just four weeks after the firm's former chief executive was sentence to prison. Quigley, the former finance director of Fincorp Investments, was found not guilty of breaching his duties ...

Investor revolt threatens 30 fund managers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
An action group of disgruntled investors are trying to remove the 30-member management team of Wellington Premium Income Fund. The unit-holder action group says it represents 27 per cent of the investors in PIF and has taken steps to convene a meeting ...

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 ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... releases out of Australia had been disappointing at best. Retail spending fell by a lower-than-expected 0.5 per cent in March - the first in five months. Home loan approvals fell by 1.5 per cent to 44,968 in March - the lowest level in 10 years. Sure ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Another day, another down trading day - on Wall Street and in Europe overnight and chances are, it would be a down day in Asia too - if they follow the blind leaders. You've got it to hand it to market players. They're on their way to proving two immortal ...