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Back office firm eyes super growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... quickly and efficiently to help adopt any of these changes for our clients," said Houlihan. MainstreamBPO has offices in Sydney and Melbourne and currently has 42 clients with 100 managed funds. Another of its subsidiaries, FundBPO is also open to tenders ...

Leveraged ETF risk laid bare

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... at the research firm's investment conference when he showed the risks of US-style synthetic ETFs at a panel session in Sydney on Friday. Tom Keenan of iShares Australia and Graham Smith of State Street Global Advisers had just finished talking through ...

Alpha puts its money where its mouth is

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... re-ignite their desire to invest. Alpha is holding a half-day seminar, '2011 Tax Effective Investing - The Essential Primer' in Sydney on Thursday, 19th May to provide anwers to the questions that matter. The GFC changed the nature of the relationship ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... will report its first half results. The Institute of Actuaries of Australia holds its Flood Resilience Seminar for 2011 in Sydney. On Friday, Australian stocks closed slightly higher, after spending much of the session lower, but investors remained cautious. ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... half-million dollar balances, an industry expert said today. In his keynote speech at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Sydney, Jeremy Cooper, head of Challenger Limited retirement products division, said longevity risk meant that $500,000 would ...

Advisers not ready for super changes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... Superannuation System Review, told a packed ballroom of industry professionals at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Sydney that the world of superannuation was changing from one of accumulations to one of pensions. In his keynote speech, Cooper ...

IMCA: International expert to speak on the development of debt markets in emerging global economies.

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... has secured renowned global macro strategist, Dr Tom Higgins, as guest speaker at their upcoming seminar, to be held in Sydney on Wednesday, 18 May and Melbourne on Thursday, 19 May. Dr Higgins will address why emerging markets local currency sovereign ...

Bans hit bad planners: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... Lugarno, NSW, also forged a client's signature on a falsified withdrawal request, the financial services regulator said. The Sydney-based adviser withdrew the money from 2002 to 2008. But he came undone when he became an authorised representative for ...

UniSuper to shed mandates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... December 2010. More than half the charters - 98 in total - were allocated to alternative investments such as airports in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, a Texas toll road and some plantations. Some of the contracts were with private equity managers such ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... Coleman, from US energy giant ExxonMobil, as successor to retiring chief executive Don Voelte. The spot price of gold in Sydney at 1207 AEST was $US1,503.60 per fine ounce, down $US20.40 from Wednesday's close of $US1,524. Gold miner Newcrest was down ...