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FPA board member resigns, airs governance concerns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
One of the founders of Matrix Planning Solutions has resigned from the Financial Planning Association (FPA) board due to concerns about the association's governance practices and its fixation on planner remuneration. Rob Pedersen, appointed to the FPA ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
The Australian share market has received a mixed lead from offshore markets after Wall Street closed weaker but crude oil and copper ended firmer. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Future Exchange, the June share price index contract was down 11 points at ...

The future according to Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
"My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." This is the future according to Ben. Spoken like a real trooper. With these words, Big Ben appears to have calmed financial markets - equity and commodity markets rose ...

Future Fund chair attacks RSPT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
In an unprecedented intervention into the political war around the government's mining tax proposal, the chairman of the public sector Future Fund said the tax should be re-designed or scrapped. David Murray, Future Fund chairman, told Business Spectator ...

ESI Super tops up growth and fixed interest

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
The $2.8 billion ESI Super has increased its fixed interest and growth assets allocations across four investment options, following a recent review. ESI Super announced recently that it would open up the fund's stable and capital managed options to ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
Ok, ok...there's no defending the indefensible, so I wouldn't even try. Now you know what happens when hype meets reality. The S&P 500 index plummeted by 3.44 per cent when "great expectations" on the US jobs front turned out to be a "great disappointment". ...

NAB addresses ACCC concerns

ASX STATEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
National Australia Bank (NAB) hopes to appease the ACCC's concerns about the planned AXA APH acquisition by potentially divesting the North Wealth.net investment platform, one of the causes of the competition regulator's concerns. In an ASX statement ...

Local unis smash US funds returns

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Local university endowment funds investments performed three times better than their US counterparts - a trend that looks set to continue as local institutions up the ante on alternative assets. According to a Mercer report that surveyed 27 institutions ...

AFA airs planner worries on fin reforms

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
Planning body AFA continues its dialogue with Canberra about proposed government reforms that will lift industry standards, on the whole, but could also hurt the future of small to medium size Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs). Richard Klipin, chief ...

Investec wins $150m AMP Cap mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
Investec Asset Management has gained a $150 million mandate from AMP Capital Investors to invest in emerging markets. The investment mandate was invested through AMP Capital's Future Directions multi-manager product to Investec's 4Factor Emerging Markets ...