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Market plunge exposes system weakness: Cooper

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... Information. "Events like these really expose the way we treat retirement, as though it's just a slightly more conservative version of accumulation," said Cooper. Cooper said that recent studies suggest that retirement portfolios were exposed to 67% ...

ACSI chief exec Byrne wins PRI election

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... base. "It's a great honour, I think it's very important that we have Australians on the council to allow us to embed our version of investment risk mitigation," said Byrne. The next meeting will take place in Paris in September with policy development ...

ASIC looks to reshape retail advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... propose a replacement regulatory guide. ASIC proposes that its Regulatory Guide 200 (RG 200) be replaced with a new, updated version, in particular reshaping guidance for people who give advice to retail clients. The updated guidance will apply to all ...

Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... immortal words, "If something can go wrong, it will." But assuming it gets signed off as dictated last Sunday or in another version - chances are it might for Julia will walk all around Australia to accommodate whatever demands are there that still need ...

Ascalon fund cashes in on low carbon world

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
Ascalon Capital Managers continues the momentum of funds moving into the clean energy space, launching a retail version of Arkx Investment Management's clean energy fund to capitalise on low carbon economies. The Arkx Global Clean Energy Fund will focus ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... rising 2.5 per cent. Shares of Microsoft surged 3.7 per cent amid rumours that the software giant would release its next version of the Windows operating system earlier than expected, in April 2012. Investors meanwhile shrugged off Commerce Department ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... Proposal for Overcoming the Euro Crisis". Read it here: http://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/a-modest-proposal-version-2-1-for-the-levy-institute-pdf.pdf And of course, there's also the "Vienna initiative" which Olli Rehn, the EU's economic ...

Bendigo Wealth expands, restructures with seven senior appointments

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... said the wealth management firm would also be rolling out its separate managed accounts platform. While the non-super version had been launched already, a superannuation version would be on the market by next year. "It's very exciting," she said. "In ...

Deposits may shield Aussie banks from Greek debt crisis fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... new credit crisis in financial markets. The concern is that if Greece defaults on its loans, it could become a European version of the Lehman Brothers collapse, sparking a new seizure of credit markets. Australia's Big Four banks source 40 per cent of ...

S&P looks to Africa as investment grows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index to cater for a growing appetite to invest in Africa, coinciding with bullish earnings growth forecasts for the continent. According to S&P, the Access Africa index is made up of the largest and most liquid equities ...