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Intech fixed interest tops IC survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
Intech's implemented consulting service takes the top gong in the Australian fixed interest and international fixed interest categories, according to a December quarter survey. The latest quarterly implemented consulting survey, jointly conducted by ...

Self-employed are more picky with advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
Self-employed people are 25 per cent less satisfied on average with the planning services they received from their planners compared to retirees and other employed workers, a new survey found. The Business Health CATScan client satisfaction research ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
What happens in Rome stays in Rome. Or so it should have been were it not for the sudden resignation of Japan's Finance Minister following the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers on Valentine's Day. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
The Australian share market has received a strongly negative lead from Wall Street securities trading, although precious metals were up. Copper and oil were down. At 0710 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 67 points ...

Advisers caught for market manipulation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Two former client advisers have been found guilty of market manipulation following ASIC investigations. According to a statement by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Rocco Musumeci and Richard John Wade were yesterday handed custodial ...

ITC Funds Management expands team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Forestry and timber specialist ITC boosts its Funds Management team with three more executives, each boasting at least 15 years industry experience, as the group ramps up its services for financial planning groups and advisers. Earlier this month, the ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
The contest for 'The Biggest Loser' went into full swing as bad news continued to flow. Right on the heels of the Eurozone's 1.5 per cent economic contraction in the fourth quarter, Japan's weigh in showed that its economy lost more, down 3.3 per cent ...

BNY Mellon launches Ankura Capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
It may be one small step for BNY Mellon but a giant leap for Ankura Capital, an Australian equities fund that will ride on the bank's 34-country strong distribution network to attract overseas money. BNY Mellon Asset Management plans to use its global ...

DC plans to axe managers

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Two in five defined contribution plan sponsors in the US are expected to replace their underperforming fund managers in 2009, new research shows. According to Lori Lucas, defined contribution leader at US-based Callan Associates, the credit crisis has ...

DKN Financial FUA falls 26pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
DKN Financial Group's funds under advice (FUA) fell 26 per cent during 2008 but the group's chief executive remains adamant the business is in "good shape". DKN's preliminary results for the six months to the end of December last year found FUA dropped ...