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Ventura reduces wholesale funds cost

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
Ventura Investment Management has reduced the price for its wholesale funds by up to 25%, following the reappointment of Russell Investments as the funds' investment manager. The move follows feedback from advisers who maintained clients had become ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go." Oh yes Virginia, happy days have come back. Wall Street's up, Europe's up, Asia and Australia are up and up. Scan through the headlines and you get the impression that though all remains ...

MLC continues slashing Wrap fees

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
MLC has continued cutting its fees in a bid to drive up adviser competition as it unveils its new MLC Wrap pricing structure. Effective for both new and existing MLC Wrap clients from December 1, the new structure will see lower administration fees ...

DST Global Solutions launches HiPortfolio upgrade

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
Software and technology provider DST Global Solutions has upgraded its investment accounting and asset servicing solution HiPortfolioA(R) 3v10. DST said the enhanced version is the latest in a regular cycle of functional and technical enrichment, based ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
This morning I woke up to Reuter's headline screaming, "Stocks slide on weak US growth data" and Bloomberg's "European Stocks Drop as Euro Area Borrowing Costs Rise; Commerzbank Slumps". What could have scared the equities markets off again this time ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
My mother once - yes, only once - told me that if you go out looking for trouble, you're gonna find one. That's exactly what happened in the financial markets while we were sleeping. Not content with the troubles plaguing Europa, investors looked to ...

Ripoll defends FOFA integrity

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... reality is people can't opt-out, they don't know how and in many cases they don't even know they have opted-in. In terms of red tape, I doubt it will be more than what is involved today. Who here doesn't communicate with their clients at least once every ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... OneSteel Ltd and Bow Energy hold their annual general meetings. In Australia, the share market on Friday closed firmly in the red at its weakest level so far for the month as concern about the eurozone debt crisis continued to weigh on investors. The ...

ACCC gives CBA Count acquisition the go-ahead

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
Shareholders at Count Financial Limited will meet in Sydney next week to discuss the schemes of arrangement required for Commonwealth Bank's takeover of the firm. This follows yesterday's decision from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... powerhouse Germany were roughed up on the bond markets. Italian benchmark 10-year bond yields once again topped the 7.0 per cent red-zone level on Wednesday, with Spain hit too after it had to abandon its 2011 growth target of a very modest 1.3 per cent. ...