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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
Woodside Petroleum chairman, Charles Goode, has announced that the energy producer is likely to soon get approval to supply the Californian market with LNG via specially designed ships which will anchor off the US coast and then pump the gas through ...

Spectrum Super adds and subtracts from menu

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2006
Trustee SMF Funds Management has announced changes to the Spectrum Super investment menu after a review of available options, resulting in significant additions and some funds being removed from the list. New funds to be added to the menu are the Bendigo ...

SMAs step up to platforms

Australian Financial Services (AFS) Group is the latest to join a growing number of dealer groups who are pioneering the use of separately managed accounts (SMAs), touted the biggest thing since platforms. AFS joins Tolhurst Noall and Lonsdale Financial ...

Past performance is misleading advertising: ASIC

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned investment funds about using past performance as part of advertising or promotional material, singling out a recent advertising campaign by BT Financial Group. In issuing its warning ...

Bluestone making aged care bonds affordable

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
Bluestone Equity Release has launched a new product to assist retirees in funding residential aged care accommodation bonds by using the equity in their family homes, while also resisting any rise to its fixed-for-life product despite last week's 25 ...

Private equity cash cow keeps growing

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
Private equity was being promoted yesterday as the major alternative source of returns for fund managers with the promise of returns as high as 31 per cent year on year over 20 years. According to founder and executive chairman of CHAMP Private Equity ...

China miracle more political than economic: Fidelity Summit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
The China boom story is more a political miracle than an economic evolution, and that makes it even riskier than first imagined. The question of China was posed by Mercer's Tony Cole at the Fidelity Australian Equities Summit. The world has never seen ...

Future Fund keeps capital deployment close to its chest

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2006
Trade with China and commodities are still the mainstays of the Australian economy, said Future Fund chairman, David Murray, at a Fidelity Investments forum yesterday, while speculating that it could be a year or more before Future Fund capital is deployed. ...

Financial planners apply within: Westpac

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
Financial planners are in demand and Westpac is looking to recruit healthily as it seeks to underpin its planner network to meet demand for super and retirement planning. With the Australian demographic tilting more and more heavily towards the pre-retirement ...

Chalk up number 7 for Bravura in the UK

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2006
Bravura Solutions has just won its seventh UK client for their Talisman administration software. Cardif Pinnacle, part of BNP Paribas, is one of the UK's top providers of creditor, warranty and investment products and have just agreed to license Bravura's ...