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Investors Mutual wins Aus equities mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Boutique Australian equities firm Investors Mutual has been awarded a $300 million large cap Australian equities mandate from State Super Financial Services, Financial Standard can reveal. The new mandate win extends a period of success for the fund ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Wall Street might is in the midst of jubilation, celebrating the Dow Jones Industrial Index's foray into a new all-time record high last night. Investors are counting their lucky stars - er, dollars - from the Dow's 117.7% surge from the bottom plumbed ...

Aussie billionaires ranked in Forbes richlist

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is, once again, the Australian furthest up the annual Forbes list of wealthiest billionaires, coming in at number 36. Forbes estimated her wealth at $17 billion and suggested that lower iron ore prices may have knocked a ...

Lost super deadline closes in

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
The Australian Taxation Office is reminding superannuation funds they have less than three months before the 31 May deadline to transfer certain lost super accounts to the Australian Taxation Office. Lost super under the requirements are defined as ...

Industry bodies welcome Code of Conduct update

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have welcomed the release of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) guidance on the regulatory code of conduct. After the release of the guidance ...

Former Lonsec MD pleads guilty to insider trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Former managing director of stockbroking firm Lonsec Norman John Graham pleaded guilty to two charges of insider trading, the Australian Securities and Investments Comission (ASIC) announced on Friday. The charges relate to an order that Graham placed ...

Fee for service mortgage broking for $3500

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Mortgage broker Independent Mortgage Planners has launched a $3,500 flat-fee brokerage service for home buyers and property investors. IMP is an independent online broking service based in the Hunter Valley in NSW. A statement issued by Craig Morgan ...

The virtuous cycle is back in play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Who's afraid of sequestration? Not Wall Street it seems. The US$85 billion in spending cuts known as 'sequestration' came into effect last Friday, the 1st of March. Yes, that one. That unkind cut that the IMF predicts will shave half a percent to its ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Phew! We got passed that air pocket so easily, didn't we now? Equities are once again flying high. Never mind the still inconclusive Italian elections because judging from last night's Italian bond auction, financial markets aren't really that scared. ...

Two-thirds US clients don't understand fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
Two-thirds of US wealth management clients don't know how their financial product providers are paid, according to new research from Boston-based Cerulli Associates. The research shows how Australia is not the only nation debating investment, pension ...