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ASX mFund yet to attract major brokers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
More than three quarters of Australia's online retail investors could have difficulty accessing the ASX's mFund service because their existing broker does not offer access. According to figures from Investment Trends, collectively CommSec, E*Trade ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open higher, with solid gains on Wall Street overnight. The December share price index futures contract is up 30 points at 5,432. The Dow and S&P 500 have bolted to fresh records on continued momentum from Wednesday's ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... tenners dropping to a record low 0.867% -- and the euro currency dropped below US$1.30 (the first since July 2013). The surprise rate cut. The ECB lowered its main lending rate by 10 basis points to a record low 0.05%; it's raised the interest rate it ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
Hit it Karen, I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation And the only explanation I can find Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around Your love's put me at the top of the world." Tomorrow has come and the S&P 500 index has ...

Departing van Eyk execs to assist with handover

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
The three senior van Eyk asset consulting executives who announced their surprise resignations earlier this month, will stay on to assist with the transition, the company has confirmed. As first reported by Financial Standard; Jonathan Ramsay, Jonathan ...

Movers and shakers

Surprise exit for van Eyk asset consulting team Van Eyk's three person asset consultant team has left the company, the company has confirmed. Head of asset consulting Jonathan Ramsay and asset consultants Fil Andronaco and Jonathan Tolub resigned their ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... in the past 45 weeks." That's how happy and would be happier still provided (pray not) Janet does not spring a kinder surprise (or is misinterpreted) at the Jackson.

Surprise exit for van Eyk asset consulting team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Van Eyk's three person asset consultant team has left the company, the company has confirmed. Head of asset consulting Jonathan Ramsay and asset consultants Fil Andronaco and Jonathan Tolub resigned their posts but van Eyk declined to explain the circumstances. ...

Independent trustees fix wrong problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... note that while independent trustees in theory should add a layer of superior governance performance to super funds, the surprise is that it's retail rather than industry funds where independence is more complex. Overlaid with how retail funds have more ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... The expert panel debated everything from the slowdown in China to housing bubble fears. Ong expressed concern about a surprise jump in domestic unemployment to 6.4% which she said represented a loss in momentum for the economy. "We expect the labour ...