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Further rate cuts to tempt investors back into risk assets: Lucas

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... homebuilder in the US, Toll Brothers, has notched a higher quarterly profit than expected on the back of higher prices," he notes. Equally encouraging, adds Lucas is China which where growth appears to be accelerating again. He expects a suggested growth ...

Manual corporate actions processing costly: DST

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... risk to firms' front offices from sub-optimal trading decisions is estimated to be as much as A$5 billion globally." He notes that errors can occur anywhere in the corporate actions decision process. "This begins with the originator of the corporate ...

More good news for US housing market

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... market is barely halfway back to previous peak." While not yet as substantial as it was in 2006 - 2007, the research also notes that the weight of capital has led to increasingly intense competition for core acquisitions and core lending. It's understood ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... common sense and observable facts - Australian banks are amongst the best capitalised in the world." Meanwhile, Abernethy notes, the banks of France and Germany say they will not meet the Basel III capital requirements until 2020, while the enormous ...

Property set for attractive multi-year returns: Stan Life

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... UK and Germany, prime global office market yields offer a yield premium of 400 basis points on average." The strategist notes that commercial property did not experience a construction boom during the last cycle and as a result, supply is limited. If ...

Advisers must change mindset in face of FoFA

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... facing the biggest challenge." "When you think about what a doctor or lawyer does, they are not selling you drugs or case notes, they are selling you their time. That is how financial planners need to see their business going forward." She explained ...

Federal election to compound market uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... advisory firm. With less than 12 months until the federal election, Political Monitor's Investing in an election year report notes that while victory for either the Coalition or Labor carries unique risks for key sectors, political posturing looks likely ...

Another Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser banned

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... that after an investigation during 2008 and 2009, Gillespie forged clients' signatures on documents, created false file notes and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. He also provided inappropriate advice to clients and charged excessive fees ...

NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... councils lost $16 million, or 93% of their capital investment, on the complex investments called constant proportion debt notes, that they bought from LGFS, a subsidiary of NSW Local Government Superannuation Scheme in 2006. It was decided that the councils ...

Economic indicators defy equities upside: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... Fleming. The deputy head of Australian equities also highlighted volatile commodity prices, the on-going printing of bank notes in the US, Europe and Japan, plus the fragility of global banks as distorting influences on the market. However, he still ...