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Finsia launches fin services credential

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
Finsia has developed the Financial Services Professional (FSP) credential to improve conduct in the industry and enhance the calibre of the financial services workforce. It's an apprenticeship style credential where employees starting their career are ...

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The weekend's G-20 Summit in Toronto is done, but is it dusted? Their communiquA(C) had something for everyone - it contained a framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth, something on financial sector reform, a bit on financial institutions ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received flat to mixed leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while indices were down in Europe and Asia. Precious metals traded higher, as did oil and copper. At 0759 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Short form PDS gets green light

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
Super fund members can look forward to an eight-page product disclosure statement (PDS) rather than 80, as new laws announced this week kick in. The new regulations are an important step forward to a new era in disclosure for fund members, said super ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The Australian share market has received strongly negative leads from key indices overnight, although commodities markets were stronger, with precious metals, copper and oil all rising. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Basis Capital lesson far from over

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The collapse of Basis Capital was a tragic example of what happens when a high risk investment goes wrong, but its also a reminder of the importance of a well-diversified portfolio, said a planner who had clients invested in Basis products. Matthew ...

RMBS market low risk and high return: Aberdeen

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
Aberdeen Asset Management is tilting its local fixed income portfolios toward Australian residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) to capitalise on wide spreads in the "bullet proof" asset class. Victor Rodriguez, head of fixed income at Aberdeen ...

World-class Aussie funds reach Europe through UCITS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
European Union laws that come into effect next year will allow Australian fund managers to invest funds for overseas investors with less admin headaches. It's the new world breaking into the old world. Australian fund managers, many of whom could trace ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
An academic paper that warns five US pension funds could run out of money in less than 10 years due to chronic underfunding and poor returns serves as a precautionary tale for local investors. In a paper published last August titled 'The Liabilities ...

Aussie quant funds stay ahead with proprietary data

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Australian equities quantitative fund managers may become far more secretive about their investment strategies as they strive to find different stock market signals to outperform their peers, according to one ratings firm. Justine Gorman, analyst at ...