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Govt to inject $25m into 'best practice' regulation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
The government will pump up to $25 million over four years into a new centre that will teach and train the next generation of financial regulators in Australia while building ties with the regulatory powers-that-be in Asia. Speaking at a post-Budget ...

Investec eyes EM debt, record inflows

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market was moderately higher at noon led by the financial sector and optimism following the European bailout package. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had risen 14.8 points, or 0.32 per cent, to 4,614.6 points at 1200 AEST, while ...

J.P. Morgan rolls out structured products to planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
J.P. Morgan is working with financial planning dealer groups to cater to growing demand for white-labelled structured products. David Jones-Prichard, executive director of equity derivatives and structured products at J.P. Morgan, said rising investment ...

RSPT reaction excessive: ISN

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
An analysis of the proposed Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) by Industry Super Network reveals that its short-term introductory costs of 12 basis points will be more than offset by positive impacts on mining companies and super fund returns as they ...

Macq Life upgrades risk products

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
Macquarie Life has improved the total and permanent disability (TPD) and disability income insurance features of its FutureWise and Super Protector risk products. The firm has increased the TPD maximum sum insured to $5 million for white collar professions. ...

Yellow Brick Road selects OneVue managed accounts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road, headed by Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris, plans to make a big mark in the self managed super funds (SMSFs) market by providing "advice on tap", signing a deal with managed account provider OneVue to help ...

Van Eyk head of strategic research joins Future Fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Nigel Wilkin-Smith, head of strategic research at van Eyk, has left the research house after several years to join the Future Fund's strategy team - the second senior staff to leave the firm in less than a year. Wilkin-Smith said it was a difficult ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Feeding the fear. Times like these, it's not so difficult to do. Just replace the word "Greece" with "global" in Greece sovereign crisis and what do you have? You have Global Sovereign Crisis and the attendant panic and volatility in the financial markets ...

Veitch wins top AXA adviser award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Michelle Veitch of MAP Financial Strategies in South Australia has won the Gerald Lippman Perpetual Trophy, AXA's top gong at its national annual adviser awards. MAP has two practices, one in Adelaide's CBD, which trades as Business and Investment Consultants ...