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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Most key market indices were lower, but oil and copper were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0822 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was five points lower at 4,883. ...

SMSFs pour more into property

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
Self-managed super funds (SMSFs) are increasingly looking to allocate more into real estate as the sector continues on its recovery path. Investors are looking again to alternatives such as property and infrastructure to bring in long-term returns as ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket rose modestly on Wednesday as investors waited for the corporate reporting season to gear up. Telecom, which reports half-year earnings on Friday, rose 3c to 221, while Freightways rose 2c to 328 ahead of its ...

Westpac to launch more structured products for SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
Westpac has flagged plans to launch a number of structured investments over the next 12 months, starting this month with the release of self-funding instalments (SFIs) designed for SMSFs. SFIs are ASX-listed products that allow investors to buy shares ...

Investors miss wealth signposts

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
Financial planners and their clients may be missing out on the 'wealth builder' signal, according to one financial planner, who recommends a three-pronged strategy to accumulate wealth. According to HLB Mann Judd wealth management partner Jonathan Philpot ...

Top mandate winners woo super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
Macquarie, Schroders and BlackRock were the top three top fund managers to win the most investment mandates last year, as Australia's $1.3 trillion superannuation industry gears up for more mandate deals this year, new research shows. The latest Rainmaker ...

Fiducian updates FORCe software

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
Fiducian has enhanced its FORCe financial planning software to give planners better tools to educate clients on the risk and rewards of investment gearing. Fiducian Portfolio Services has released an integrated sensitivity analysis module to test gearing ...

More to retirement than super: planner

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
A large-scale retirement survey by AXA backs previous research that majority of Gen Xers wait until the last minute before they start saving for retirement, but one planner makes suggestions on how thirty-somethings can start saving now without digging ...

Instreet appoints Brant to its board

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
Instreet Investment adds a former Merrill Lynch director to its board. Graeme Brant has joined the board for the investment house to assist in the creation and execution of Instreet's strategic plan to grow in the niche financial services market. Brant ...

Staff upheaval at BTIM

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
Two senior portfolio managers are set to leave BT Investment Management (BTIM), it was revealed last week. Scott Osborne, who manages two income strategies, will leave the fund manager while Jack Chemello, who co-manages three Australian equity funds ...