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Extending the extended extension

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... removed the interest rate risk on most investment assets. It's a confidence builder. But don't take it from me, let's here Big Benny himself: "We hope to convey to the market the extent to which there is support on the committee for maintaining rates ...

Premium Wealth adds new practice to dealer network

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... this model is particularly attractive to independently-minded firms as more and more dealer groups are swallowed up by the big institutions." Independently-owned Premium Wealth has 22 member firms and $2 billion in funds under advice.

Agile, flexible portfolios big winners for instos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Investors will need to move quickly in 2012 as macroeconomic factors significantly impact investment outcomes, according to Mercer's outlook on the coming year. Portfolio flexibility and real-time governance models will be key to better results for ...

SuperStream compliance poses threat to funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... because those are new requirements coming in from 1 July 2013," said Boal. While super funds are still recovering from the three big hits of 2011, that is the Future of Financial Advice reforms, Stronger Super and the commitment to an increase the superannuation ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... 0.38% for the day. This was also evident in the S&P 500's minute 0.1% slip. What gives? Shouldn't equity markets be selling big time? Especially with IMF top honcha (I guess this is the feminine version of honcho), Christine Lagarde, warning that the ...

Annual fee collation too complex: FPA to PJC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... the fee disclosure requirement was too prescriptive and complex and would add to costs and inefficiency for advisers. "I'm a big believer in identifying the problem you're trying to solve and I'm not sure we've got a problem that needs to be solved," ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Australian shares have stayed in positive territory as hopes for a debt deal with Greece buoyed European shares and rising commodity prices boosted miners and energy companies. Energy stocks led the push higher, adding 0.7 per cent after news that the ...

So far so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... gonna be a good year. With only seven trading days to go before January's done, most major equity markets are up... some even big time. The S&P 500 index is up 4.6% so far this year with the Nasdaq gaining a whopping 7%. This shouldn't be surprising ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... Financials added 0.8 per cent as Morgan Stanley and Bank of America helped to boost confidence in the sector. Westpac led the big four higher, adding 0.9 per cent to $20.775 as reports surfaced that the bank plans to issue its first swathe of covered ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Something looks wrong - very, very wrong - with how financial markets are conducting themselves nowadays. Investors greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently ...