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ASIC MDA review requires further clarity: IMAP

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... Managed Account Professionals (IMAP) have maintained that the regulator's insistence on an annual review for managed discretionary account operators (MDAs) is excessive, and will push for a two-year requirement. In its submission to the Australian Securities ...

MDA guidance review will bring coherence and consistency

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... Advisers and fund managers welcome the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) review of Managed Discretionary Accounts (MDA) guidance as it will bring coherence and consistency to an under-regulated sector. "The review is a good thing ...

AMP Capital appoints new Asian portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... Peng will analyse the telecoms, utilities and healthcare sectors for the Pan Asia portfolio as well as consumer discretionary for the Asia ex-Greater China fund. Before joining AMP Capital, Peng spent three years as an investment analyst covering Asian ...

Managed accounts set for an overhaul

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... release of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) consultation paper outlining how Managed Discretionary Accounts (MDA) should be operated. Industry players have until 19 April to submit their views with the final regulatory guide ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... after news that Australian retailers recorded their strongest January sales growth in six years led to gains for discretionary retail stocks. Retail spending rose 0.9 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in January reversing three months of decline in the ...

More steam from NY rally: Melb Inst

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... to buy shares that have already risen across a broad band of industry sectors. Cyclical sectors such as consumer discretionary and information technology are showing strong levels of support while telecommunication shares and metals and minerals remain ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
The Australian stock market has opened flat, with strong gains in consumer discretionary stocks offset by weakness in mining-related sectors. At 1027 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 4.1 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,967.2 points ...

How advisers can double their business value

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... adjustments for owners' drawings," he said. He says that new business models that are off-platform, using managed discretionary agreements with clients, and taking ownership of the investment management process are deriving 40% or greater EBITs. "There ...

Rebalancing growth smoothly Australia's key challenge: Bloxham

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... is driving a fiscal contraction that is a downside risk to Australia's growth prospects, particularly if further discretionary tightening measures are required to achieve the budget surplus. However, on an encouraging note, The Gillard government has ...

Super fund contribs down a third in June quarter

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... weakness on contributions during the September 2012 quarter. The FSC regards the decline - the greatest in member (discretionary) contributions and the fourth quarterly decline in succession - as a reflecting an ongoing lack of confidence in the economy. ...