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Diamonds are a fund's best friends

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
Sparkling gems are luring investors with two global funds offering diamonds as a hedge against inflation and an alternative to traditional asset classes. Despite the availability of synthetic diamonds, prices for the gem have been rising for more than ...

Fraud adviser banned for life

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Financial adviser Robert Owen Bean has been banned for life for stealing more than $3 million from his clients over seven years, some of which he used for his own personal benefit, ASIC said today. Bean had been a securities representative and authorised ...

Free advice sparks Financial Planning Week

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Financial Planning Week kicks off today with six weeks of free online financial advice for consumers organised by the Financial Planning Association. The free advice is designed to give people a taste of what they could enjoy if they took the step of ...

Investors leave mortgage funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Mortgage Funds are still suffering redemptions pressure, with investors subject to withdrawal restrictions on formerly frozen funds, ratings agency Standard & Poor's said today. The research house said funds in its Australian Fixed Interest - Mortgages ...

Bravura's new CEO eyes Aus wealth market

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Wealth management software provider Bravura Solutions has appointed Tony Klim as its new chief executive officer, based in London. Klim has been with the company since February 2008 as chief executive officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa, where ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Surprise, surprise! There were more negative/depressing data releases over the past 24 hours than over the past few "days of fear" combined, yet most equity markets ended on the up and up. No Virginia, I'm not talking about ol' Dominique Strauss-Kahn ...

No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
Look ma, I must be psychic! Twenty-four hours have not passed since I penned on this space that the mighty US Federal Reserve would dispel the fears, the anxiety, the trepidation that's currently doing the rounds of financial markets. And with the release ...

New tool for institutionals

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
A new web-based portfolio analysis tool has been released by London-based technology firm RBC Dexia Investor Services. The firm, which provides risk and investment analytics to institutional investors, today launched Investment Analytics - Interactive ...

Investor revolt threatens 30 fund managers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
An action group of disgruntled investors are trying to remove the 30-member management team of Wellington Premium Income Fund. The unit-holder action group says it represents 27 per cent of the investors in PIF and has taken steps to convene a meeting ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
The bad news just keep piling up don't they? And from the looks of them, they're everywhere. Let me take you to a bad news tour around the world Virginia, starting from our very own land DownUnder. If you're watching carefully, you'll notice that recent ...