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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
The Australian stock market has opened lower, led by falls among the major miners and big retail banks. The market took its cues from Wall Street, where US stocks slid about half a per cent and falls in key commodities such as oil and gold. Market players ...

CSC awards Challenger $250 million mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation has awarded a $250 million mandate to investment management giant Challenger Limited, it has been confirmed. The mandate was the first to be signed to Challenger's "Relative Value Debt Strategy" (RVDS) which ...

Legg Mason $100m mandates add to IOOF value approach

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
IOOF's decision to award Legg Mason $100 million across two mandates was based on a desire to differentiate its offering from other manager and supplement existing out-of-favour value strategies, said IOOF chief investment officer Steve Merlicek. IOOF ...

Employers divided on internal social media effectiveness

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
While more than 50% of employers are using social media to communicate and build community with their employees, there is little consensus as to which tools are most effective. According to a flash survey by global professional services company Towers ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
"Every single day Every word you say... I'll be watching you." -Sting Wall Street down and...you guessed it, it's taper on day. And so, round and round we go, when it ends we do not know. But perhaps we do. There's now an emerging consensus that the ...

Super is working but needs to evolve: ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
The superannuation system is working but is transitioning, according to a report by Deloitte Access Economics that was commissioned by ASFA. The report, 'Maximising Superannuation Capital', released today at the ASFA Investment Interchange seminar ...

Regulation remains unclear a month out from FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation still has some loose ends less than a month ahead of its start, on July 1, 2013. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of Policy and Conduct Dante De Gori said that the organisation ...

RBA decisions decisions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
Taper on, taper off, taper on, taper off, taper... After so many days of riding this see and saw and saw and see of market speculation, you, I and Irene (and yes, you too Stuart) have become experts at discerning the why's and wherefores for the ups ...

FPA, AFA to lobby MPs for TASA delay

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
The main financial advice associations will lobby members of Parliament today to delay the approval of tax amendments to the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA), amendments they believe will negatively affect financial advisers. The bill is scheduled to ...

CleverSuper launches SMSF platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
Platform provider CleverSuper is attempting to bring advisers and self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) closer together with the launch of a new administration platform. The service is available for a monthly fee and it provides advisers and trustees ...