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Snowball buys FP and super businesses

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Snowball has bought Brisbane based financial planning business Money Mentors and an Adelaide based corporate superannuation business adding approximately $180 million in funds under advice (FUA) to the group. Money Mentors will operate under the group's ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
"This is a beautiful set of numbers." (Paul Keating). What is? The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report for November of course. But many headlines did not see it that way. Bloomberg headline: Australia Lost 15,600 Jobs, Adding ...

Farmers get free advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
The Financial Planning Association of Australia's (FPA) pro bono advice program trial in the New South Wales region of Sunraysia has resulted in a dozen referrals from rural financial counsellors to financial planners just over a year. Susan Grice ...

Morgan Stanley launches Aus Eq fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has launched a top performing Australian Equity Fund previously available to instos into the retail investor market. The Morgan Stanley Equity Fund is an actively-managed and highly concentrated fund that ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
The Australian economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the third quarter - the slowest since December 2000. Is the glass half-full? Or is it half-empty? Gauging from the headlines that followed the release of the Australian National Accounts, the domestic economy's ...

Media Super sponsors Walkley awards

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Lights, camera, action - Media Super, the industry fund for print, media, entertainment and arts professionals, is sponsoring the 2008 Walkley Awards. The $2.6 billion fund is the major sponsor of this year's Walkley Awards, which pays tribute to journalists ...

Quattro fund on ice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Quattro Asset Management has shelved plans to launch of its capital protected structured product Vault 08 and shifted its focus to buying long short equity strategies. David Adiseshan, Quattro Asset Management executive director, said Vault 08 managed ...

Super Concepts scores $600m admin coup

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
Self managed super fund (SMSF) administrator, Super Concepts, is to administer approximately $150 million on behalf of 154 CommSec clients, a deal signed four months after YourChoice clients, with $450 million in SMSF assets, also moved to the ING-owned ...

St.George chief resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
Paul Fegan, chief executive and managing director of St. George Bank, has announced his resignation. "Given that St.George shareholders have overwhelmingly endorsed the [Westpac/St.George] merger, it's now appropriate to make my decision about the future," ...

Age of the virtual super regulator

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
The creation of a 'super' regulator, in which securities commissions around the world agree to govern under a unifying set of principles that crosses national boundaries, might just be the key to prevent a repeat of the global financial crises. Speaking ...