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It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Ho-ho-hum. Been there, done that times n. Another day, another week, another month, another quarter and still financial markets continue to dance to the same old songs. They rise and fall depending on the headline of the day - though it seems to me ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened almost one per cent lower in line with falls in the US after the release of a disappointing jobs report there on Friday. At 1015 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 35.1 points, or 0.84 per cent ...

GS, Citi appointed for NSW elec, coal mine sales

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
Goldman Sachs will advise the NSW government on the $3bn sale of the State's electricity generators while Citigroup will act as specialist financial adviser on the sale or lease of the Cobbora coal mine development. "The sale of the State's electricity ...

Provident Capital leaves 3500 investors in limbo

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
The collapse of Sydney-based mortgage lender and fund manager Provident Capital has left 3,500 retail investors at risk of losing more than $100 million. Phil Carter, Tony Sims and Marcus Ayres of PPB Advisory were this week appointed receivers of Provident ...

Two cuts and a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012

Handle churn through dealer groups, don't target advisers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
The Financial Services Council (FSC) should develop standards to force dealer groups and life companies to manage individual advisers churning business rather than punish the entire industry, reveals an opinion survey of independent advisers conducted ...

Trio fraud victims demand compensation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
A group of Trio fraud victims is meeting with Bill Shorten, minister for superannuation and financial services, to demand that they be compensated for their losses just as members of regular super funds were compensated. John Telford, secretary of the ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
Waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting, waiting. Don't' you just hate it? Over the past month or so, this seems to be all that financial markets have been doing - waiting for the result of the French and Greek elections, waiting for Greece's ...

Clime added to Macquarie Wrap platform

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Clime Investment Management's Clime Australia Growth Value Fund has been added to the Macquarie Wrap platform. The Clime Australian Value Growth Fund is an equity fund designed to provide investors consistent capital growth and a growing level of income ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Well, well, well. Don't look now folks for we may have just received the best indicator of the financial markets' direction over the next three months, at least. No Virginia, it's not yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to sit ...