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Christian Super joins Government to seed community fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... initiatives for social enterprises across Australia. "Access to appropriate finance at the right time, in combination with sound business and investment advice, is crucial to the growth of social enterprises and their ability to provide work and training ...

LGS earns sustainability award

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... award was recognition of the fund's best practice approach to responsible investment. "Although the award highlights the sound practices that underpin our responsible investment strategy, we feel that it's important to keep working on the development ...

New tool launched to gear SMSFs into property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
Self-managed super administration provider Multiport has launched a new package to help SMSF trustees gear property into SMSFs and invited financial planners to a roundtable discussion debating the merits of property in super. At the luncheon in Sydney ...

Consultant warns super funds on alternative rush

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... Sales & Marketing Symposium. "The purveyors of these things aren't silly and realise they can package things up to make them sound different with some leverage in there and can convince consultants and the investors that they're buying alternatives." ...

Industry brawl erupts over super network ads

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... on the ISN to "come clean" with its "real agenda" which it said was the elimination of competition and the destruction of sound financial advice. "The FPA... calls upon the ISN to immediately desist from its disgraceful fear campaign of half-truths and ...

Knights in shining armour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/12109694/ in her report titled, "US Fed hints at QE3" and I mused about this in my 23 June commentary, "The sound of QE3" ( http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/12074574/ ) where I noted that the ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
Boing! That's the sound heard all over Wall Street overnight - the sound of rebounding US eco stats, that is. The Street jumped high and pushed the S&P 500 up by 1.1% to its highest close since the 10th of May and 10 points shy of the three-year summit ...

Former UBS star team launches flagship Bennelong Avoca fund

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... "That's a problem for many fund managers," Campbell said. The team will seek to minimise the volatility of returns through sound risk management principles including sector and stock concentration rules and tracking error limits. Campbell said the weakness ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
The Australian stock market was firmer at noon, on track to post a third straight day of gains, with the healthcare and industrials sector leading the broader market higher. At 1206 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 37.6 points, or 0.83 per ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
"People hearing without listening." Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence The US Federal Reserve has spoken - and financial markets didn't like what they heard, for they didn't listen. It was another down day on The Street after the Fed's post-FOMC ...