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Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... financial position with Elders behind us and, more importantly, we're a forestry company that uses managed investment schemes (MIS), not an MIS company that uses forestry," he said. Shane Kelly, managing director at agribusiness research specialist Adviser ...

Great Southern falls into administration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... program for the past 15 months, recognising the need to diversify its earnings and cash flow, reduce its reliance on annual MIS sales, reduce its level of gearing and to derive more value from its strategic asset base. "Earlier this year, the company ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was more than two and a half per cent lower at noon, with concerns about the stability of the US economy dragging the market down. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index slumped 110.4 points lower, or by 2.86 per cent, at 3745.7 ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Generally positive reactions by wealth managers to the second Rudd-Swan federal budget indicate the industry increasingly knows its place in the political landscape. Driving the mooted reaction is how kind the Treasurer Wayne Swan was to the superannuation ...

APRA calls for IT risk submissions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Super funds, insurance firms and credit unions have just three weeks to deliver a written submission to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on effectively managing information technology (IT) risk. The regulatory body said IT risk ...

FX trader guilty of $360k fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Brisbane-based resident Brett Tony Best has pleaded guilty to running an illegal managed investment scheme (MIS), which enabled him to dupe more than 200 south-east Queenslanders out of $360,000 in funds. Best, 39, pleaded guilty to one charge of dishonestly ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
If you think Australia is having strange debates about how the government should spend GFC stimulus money to pump prime the economy, wait until you hear what they are arguing about in China. China is one of the last bastions of publicly acceptable cigarette ...

Instreet a hit with planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sydney-based boutique firm Instreet Investment raised nearly twice its initial target of $20 million in an Australian equities product that taps into planner demand for "certainty" in the midst of the global financial crisis. The asset manager celebrates ...

AFA supports PIS strategy

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has thrown its support behind Professional Investment Services' (PIS) strategy to go head to head against the industry fund anti-commission advertising campaigns. Richard Klipin, chief executive at the AFA ...

Australian equities need more PR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
Listed Australian companies can do more to convince overseas fund managers and pension funds to invest in the local market, with some prospective investors complaining of inadequate company websites and substandard investor relations. Local fund managers ...