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Class Super gains ground in SMSF software race

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... on the part of shareholders to sell out. Yesterday, BGL announced that it had teamed up with SelfWealth to provide performance reporting in Simple Fund 360, allowing BGL clients to compare portfolio performance with their peers without any additional ...

Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... outperforming the S&P 500 index's 2.6% gain over the same period. The last time the Australian benchmark put on this kind of performance was in early May when both the Dow and the S&P 500 were both posting ever higher record highs (almost daily), there ...

Super fund mergers pose capacity problem

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... Super and Care Super's takeover of Asset Super, may restrict members in the new mega funds from accessing the strong performance of boutique managers. Aberdeen Asset Management's Australian managing director Brett Jollie is one manager who has publicly ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... $11.67. Gains by the resources sector over the whole of last week helped the local market post its strongest weekly performance since the end of April. Meanwhile, on Monday, bank stocks were mixed, with Westpac eight cents off at $29.03, ANZ shedding ...

Storm claim unfair and baseless: CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... investigating cases of misconduct within the Commonwealth Bank financial planning unit prompted a Senate inquiry into ASIC's performance. The inquiry will take a broad look at ASIC's behaviour and it is expected to look into the Storm Financial case. ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITERS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... through the 'Breaking News' section. For investment professionals, the research tables on super funds and managed funds performance data - supplied by Rainmaker Information and publishers in the print edition - are also on iPadA(C) in an interactive. ...

Storm lawyers take ASIC and CBA to court over settlement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... action lawsuit against Commonwealth Bank that started in July 2010. "The application challenges ASIC's integrity in the performance of its role as a model litigant," Levitt said. ASIC's slow reaction on investigating cases of misconduct within the Commonwealth ...

Weak tenant demand hurts Aussie property outlook

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... apartment development." The report said the gradual improvement in global real estate markets in 2013 - albeit with performance varying greatly from country to country - was helped by a recovery in overall capital markets. La Salle global head of research ...

US regulator lifts hedge fund advertising ban

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... instruments. They often seek to provide a return which is uncorrelated to equity and bond markets and tend to feature a performance fee. Aware of a bad press image, many hedge fund managers avoid defining themselves as such, instead labeling their strategies ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... tapering done "relatively" soon before the costs of stimulation outweigh its benefits. The US equity market's positive performance to the increasing certitude that the Fed would commence its tapering operations this coming September -- and the accompanying ...