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Planners face higher PI fees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) dispute resolution scheme overhaul means financial planners may be forced to pay higher professional indemnity premiums and their clients could face higher fees. The new rules mean that from ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... Exchange, the June share price index contract was 67 points higher at 3819 on a volume of 12,075 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the rally in the US overnight was lifting the local market. "It's going extraordinarily ...

Investors to regain capital from axed fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Investors with funds tied up with Pengana Capital's Australian Property Securities Fund can expect to get a reimbursement of "as close to 100 per cent" of their capital following last week's announcement of the fund's closure. Denis Carroll, head of ...

Investors rush to oil ETCs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Exchange traded commodity (ETC) provider, ETF Securities,enjoyed a $1.2 billion rise in inflows into oil ETCs in the first four months of this year. Inflows into oil ETCs were more than two times the flows recorded during 2008 with assets under management ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after negative leads from Wall Street in securities, metals and oil, although gold was higher. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 42 points lower ...

Perpetual starts legal proceedings to claim funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... retail investors who invested in $125 million worth of credit-linked Mahogany Capital notes that were sold by Grange Securities. Perpetual, the security trustee and note trustee of the Mahongany Notes I, took the action against BNY Corporate Trustee ...

ASF names former S&P head as CEO

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... director, Chris Dalton, as chief executive. Dalton replaces Greg Medcraft, who was appointed commissioner at Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in December last year. Dalton worked at Standard & Poor's for 19 years, including eight ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... Ultra high net worth investors in Australia are starting to wade back into the Australian Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) market, according to Merrill Lynch. Chris Selby, head of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management in Australia, has ...

Avoiding the black swan

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... portfolio strategies ran by the group managed to outperform their benchmarks last year - by investing in hundreds of securities and looking at volatility and market correlation as the key yardsticks. "What we tend to do is make very small bets across ...

Fee disclosure for intermediaries: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... information about their engagement. Placement agents are also required to register as broker-dealers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) or CalPERS would decline the opportunity ...