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Denison: Adviser's action crucial to investment success

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Australian advisers play a crucial role in holding fund managers accountable to their investors, and in addressing poor investment performance, according to Denison Funds Management. Currently many investors are unhappy with poorly performing investment ...

Market wrap - afternoon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... cents higher at $32.60, Rio Tinto was three cents lower at $54.67 and Fortescue was five cents weaker at $3.50. The four major banks were also mixed. ANZ was 10 cents lower at $24.09, National Australia Bank was 4 cents down at $24.97, Westpac rose 10 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... release July's lending finance figures, while the National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for August is due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Monday closed slightly higher as investors digested economic data ...

Adelaide adviser facing sentence

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
Former Adelaide adviser Robert Owen Bean has appeared in court on 52 charges of engaging in dishonest conduct including accusations of misappropriating over $3.1 million of client funds. In May 2011, the corporate watchdog permanently banned Bean from ...

IFM appoints global head of marketing

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... institutional investors across four asset classes -- debt, infrastructure, private equity and listed equities. It is owned by 32 major not-for-profit Australian pension funds.

netwealth adds TAL Accelerated Protection to LifeWrap

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
In response to major demand to provide comprehensive low-cost super and investment services, coupled with multiple insurers - platform provider netwealth has announced the addition of TAL Accelerated Protection to its LifeWrap facility. The LifeWrap ...

BDO Wealth Mngt joins Fitzpatricks

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... for their clients," said McMurdo. The group currently has a strong presence in Brisbane and Sydney with offices in other major cities and has future plans to "expand its national presence but with strict admittance criteria."

Catch-all 'Alternative' label useless: Pengana

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... Pillemer, Pengana Capital CEO, said when "alternative" allocations were small, reference to the ubiquitous term wasn't a major issue, but with allocations now increasing rapidly to bundle absolute return funds, "hedge funds", private equity and infrastructure ...

GBST Composer suite FoFA ready

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... to the new regulatory regime was the product's flexibility and ease of configurability," he added. GBST understands that major regulatory change, such as FoFA, represents both a challenge and an opportunity in the highly competitive Australian financial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... Industry Group/Housing Industry Association performance of construction index (PCI) for August is scheduled to come out. No major equities news is expected. The Australian sharemarket on Thursday closed higher on the back of positive corporate news and ...