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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
The Australian market is expected to open slightly higher after receiving subdued leads from offshore trading. On the ASX 24 at 0626 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was nine points higher at 4,708. In economics news on Tuesday ...

Magill grows FUA as client base doubles

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
Nine months after the former chief of Statewide Super set up her own financial planning firm, Frances Magill is advising double the number of clients she initially targeted, and grown the firm's FUA to $5 million. Magill joined Matrix Planning Solutions ...

UK pension tenders $800m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
A UK pension fund with $3 billion in assets is seeking international fund management services for an $800 million active currency hedging mandate. The four-year mandate is with the United Kingdom's 12th largest fund within the Local Government Pension ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
The Australian market is receiving overhwelmingly positive leads from offshore trading overnight. In economics news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases data on international trade in goods and services and on retail trade, both ...

Property recovery reignites super fund war

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Australia's recovering commercial property market fuelling the bounce back in the direct property sector, combined with share returns turning south, has dented the retail super surge and put industry funds back in the market lead. CB Richard Ellis has ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
What's seemingly wrong at the beginning of last week became whole again - maybe - by the close. Fears that China would impose measures to extract excess liquidity to bring down inflation came to pass - fears passed, Beijing passed tightening measures. ...

Maritime restructures asset classes, doubles insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
The $3 billion Maritime Super combined its listed and direct property investments under one asset class, merged its absolute return and alternatives portfolios and doubled its insurance cover for members as part of a fund review this year. The trustee ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Count selects Lonsec and IRESS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
One of Australia's largest financial planning groups, Count Financial, has replaced van Eyk with Lonsec as its new research provider, and appointed IRESS as a software partner. Grant Kennaway, general manager of research at Lonsec, said the firm will ...

ASIC strikes back in Opus dispute

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Legal wrangling over the future of a Brisbane-based property fund manager is continuing with ASIC filing an appeal against a Federal Court decision that looked to have provided the besieged property fund manager with a lifeline. ASIC cancelled Opus ...