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Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
My forecasts are gloomier than yours! The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has joined the fray of gloomier international forecasters. The World Bank (WB) started to get glum at the start of the year, quickly followed by the ...

Video me up, Scottie

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
It is not quite as revolutionary as teleporting but advances in video conferencing has now made it possible for fund managers to hold life-like video meetings, a major leap from the days of delayed broadcast, blurry video images and dropped-out calls. ...

Westscheme raises admin fees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
Westscheme is increasing its weekly administration fees by up to 20 per cent - following the footsteps of other industry funds hiking their fees in a bid to meet rising operational costs. The $2.4 billion Westscheme noted in a recent newsletter to members ...

ASIC seeks Storm liquidation

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has applied to place Storm Financial into liquidation after the firm's former directors posted a "misleading" memorandum on their website. This application follows the Storm Financial's former ...

SMSFs beat the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
The average self managed super fund (SMSF) posted a gross loss of more than 11 per cent in the twelve months to June last year, beating the S&P/ASX 100 over the same period, according to new research. Using Praemium data which contained around 4,500 ...

SPAA awards industry's best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
The Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) recognised the best and brightest professionals in the sector with Jenny Power and Joanne Heighway winning the Chairman's Award and CEO Scholarship respectively. At the SPAA ...

Superpartners hires SAP, CSC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
Superpartners has announced that SAP and CSC will provide it with a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. The ERP package is part of the recently announced $70 million investment in new systems, processes and operational improvements. Superpartners ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open flat on Monday with a slightly positive leads from Wall Street on Friday. Oil, precious metals and copper were higher, too. At 0713 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
The Australian share market was trading about 1.5 per cent lower at a five-and-a-half-year low after sharp plunge on Wall Street took US stocks to levels last seen in 1997. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 52 points, or 1.63 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
The Australian stock market was firmly in the red at noon, weighed down by disappointing gross domestic product (GDP) figures, and losses among the banking and mining sectors. At 1201 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 59.6 points, or 1.85 ...