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Equity Trustees boosts profit

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
Equity Trustees (EQT) has boosted its net profit to $7.6 million in the six months to 31 December 2014, a 41.7% rise on the previous corresponding period. The interim fully franked dividend remains 46c per share. According to EQT chair Tony Killen ...

Bellmont to offer SMAs through Hub24

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
Boutique portfolio manager Bellmont Securities will offer two separately managed account (SMA) model portfolios through the Hub24 platform. Bellmont's Core Equities and Buy-Write portfolios were previously available through Linear, but Bellmont director ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Are we there now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
Yo momma! We're there now. The US Bureau of Labor Statictics' (BLS) latest update on America's employment situation - the momma of all eco stats - indicates that the economy is no longer mending, but that... it has mended. I refer not only to the much ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
The active versus passive debate is one that has raged for decades but with the latest figures showing a steady increase in the amount being allocated to index strategies, Mark Smith asks the experts if the jig is up for active fund managers. It seems ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
The Australian stock market has opened higher following a flat lead from the US. Patersons Securities economist Tony Farnham said there was little in the way of economic or company news to drive the market at present. "We're really looking for things ...

Active fund failure shown in new data

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The vast majority of Australian active managed funds have under-performed their respective benchmark across virtually all sectors of the market over one, three and five years, the latest data from S&P Dow Jones Indices shows. The worst offending sector ...

Market Wrap AM

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following a mixed result on Wall Street where the Dow reached another record high but the Nasdaq fell. At 0808 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down 18 points at 5,408 ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Superannuation fees have been at the centre of public debate since David Murray's Financial System Inquiry (FSI) flagged that there is little fee-based competition and that "fees appear high by international standards." But the Rainmaker 2014 Super ...

Retirement phase top issue for super in FSI

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
The superannuation industry has overwhelmingly focused on the shortfalls and challenges of the retirement phase of superannuation in the second round of submissions to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). In its 140 page submission the Association of ...