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Asgard launches new website for advisers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... interactive calendar with key cut-off dates for transactions that can be simply loaded in to either Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. The site also offers processing and reporting of current information regarding key client reports and mailings including ...

In it to win it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... for the 12-month bills was 2.9 times the amount sold, compared with 2.14 times last month. Demand for the longer maturity notes rose to 3.77 times from 2.93." Say what? Yes, there's even greater demand for Spanish debt compared with last month. This ...

YBR launches savings fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... that it was time superannuation funds fix their volatile asset-allocations and increase holdings of cash, floating-rate notes, and fixed-rate bonds. "With the launch of Smarter Money, Yellow Brick Road wants to offer mums and dads an institutional-grade ...

Budget tightening to hit IMR

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... continually delaying the implementation of the Investment Manager Regime." Cormann was pointing to an addendum to Hansard notes stating, "Stakeholders have informally indicated that the impact of the regime on investment decision is unlikely to be felt ...

Microinsurance reaches 500m people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... demand in China and especially India where 60% of the market resides. Latin America accounts for 15% and Africa makes up 5%, notes a new edition of the microinsurance compendium released by the Facility and the Munich Re Foundation. Asia is so central ...

ETN fears grow following price plunges

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
Growing use of exotic Exchange Traded Notes is raising fears in the US, following a price crash in a popular ETN that was tracking the VIX index, that the notes are poorly understood. ETNs, as distinct to regular Exchange Traded Funds, are a form of ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... approximately 100 from the world's 230 economies. Treasury bonds make up 87% of this total, indexed and non-indexed treasury notes 6% each with 1% in other securities types, according to the Australian Office of Financial Management, the government agency ...

HIP Super members get access to Best Doctors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... of the Harvard Medical School that allows members to contact panels of the world's best doctors to re-examine their case notes, introduce them to local experts and if appropriate recommend better treatments. The service, introduced into Australia in ...

ETP growth attracts IOSCO concerns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... Traded Funds (ETF) that are organised as collective investment schemes, exchange-traded commodities (ETC), exchange-traded notes (ETN), exchange-traded instruments (ETI), and exchange-traded vehicles (ETV). The paper, issued by the Technical Committee ...

Australian Capital Reserve directors sentenced

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... ACR was the fund-raising arm of the group, raising funds through a series of nine prospectuses offering unsecured deposit notes to the investing public between April 2000 and December 2006.