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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... cash rate by 25 basis points to three per cent. Financial stocks were among the market's better performers, with two of the big four retail banks up in early trade. CBA had risen 36 cents, or 0.59 per cent, to $61.17 and NAB had advanced 16 cents, or ...

Regulation compounds hedge fund woes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
The overwhelming majority of investors believe increased regulation for hedge funds don't protect investor interests and won't prevent the next financial crisis, according to an annual survey by Ernst & Young. The 2012 survey, Finding Common Ground ...

Clients favour modular advice

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... is that many high-net-worth clients also want specific advice and are willing to pay for it, Johnston said. Many of these big-balance clients just don't want an "all you can eat" advice model, he said. "We should be talking about modular advice, not ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... latest instalment of the ISM manufacturing survey did not live up to expectations. The index declined to 49.5 in November - a big miss relative to expectations for a 51.4 print - from 51.7 in the previous month, led by big falls in new orders (50.3 from ...

Give super fund directors more time: Gonski

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Future Fund chairman David Gonski is diametrically opposed to frequent re-election of superannuation fund directors. Instead he says that board members' tenures should be structured as three terms of three years or two terms of five years. "Annual re-elections ...

Advisers' client numbers down

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... "That's great for planners and for those clients, but does threaten to create an advice vacuum for the masses. This is where the big players must step in."

Corporate Asian bonds on fire: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Due to flush liquidity, the rise of a hungry institutional investor base locally, and regulators keen to loosen up the region's reliance on bank funding, Asia's bond markets - currently running red hot - are to expected maintain rapid growth in years ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... expectations survey and job advertisements figures for November from ANZ. Australian stocks climbed on Friday, driven by the big miners on the back of strong commodity prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 28.3 points, or 0.63 per cent, to 4,506.0 ...

Cloud computing to boost real-time super

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... tried to tackle one of the trickier questions facing the highly-regulated industry world of super: is it time to make the big shift to cloud technology? Cloud computing, broadly described as the use of software and hardware services over the internet ...

Fund budget surplus with cuts to super tax breaks: Treasury

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012