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May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
On the last trading day of April, I opened my daily piece with: "... this is investors' last day to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away"." And concluded that, "... it might be prudent to bag some of those profits and go away in May. Just ...

Mason Stevens releases global equity managed account

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Managed accounts provider, Mason Stevens, has released its first global equities portfolio after partnering up with Caledonia (Private) Investments. In an exclusive offering for managed accounts clients, the Mason Stevens Global Concentrated Portfolio ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Colonial First State subsidiary Realindex Investments has launched an emerging markets index fund that seeks to remove the drag of weighting distortion with value investing techniques. The fund, which will have fees of 79 basis points per annum and ...

ANZ plots wealth division growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
ANZ Banking Group expects growth rates in its Australian wealth management division to improve after posting a $41 million fall in net profit after tax for the half year ended March 31 2011. The bank, which posted overall statutory first half profit ...

High level super talks on now

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Top superannuation fund chiefs are today locked in high-level talks with Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten on a range of issues including raising the superannuation guarantee. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
1.00,1.03,1.05,1.08,1.10,1.20 - no these are not random numbers. These are the numbers marking the Australian dollar's recorded fresh - and fresher - after-float highs against its big brother, the US dollar. The last time I wrote about the value of ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Global equities fund managers are often choosing the same stocks for their top 10 holdings, research house Lonsec has found in its latest global equity fund sector review. The review rated 39 funds of which 26 were qualitatively managed by active stock ...

SMSF trustees hit pension payment woe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Self-managed super fund trustees risk being hit by tax and forced liquidations in the pensions phase if they don't plan ahead, financial services firm HLB Mann Judd has warned. Michael Hutton, head of wealth management at the firm, said self-managed ...

Licensee tests offer planners protection

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
Financial planners will have protection against fiduciary problems as licensees are to be subject to the same best interest tests, according to the Government's FOFA reforms. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) said that one of its recommendations ...

Certitude eyes liquidity boost

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... enabled fund manager Certitude Global Investments to lift liquidity restrictions on its HFA Diversified Investments Fund (DIF) as of June 30 2011. Certitude will remove all remaining restrictions on the $350 million fund and investors will have access ...