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Perth broker gets 3 year ban for falsifying documents

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
A Perth-based finance broker has been banned from financial services for three years after an investigation found he falsified documents to support the loan applications of his clients without their knowledge. Mathew David Schmelzkopf, of Kelmscott ...

New fund launched for wealthy migrants

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
The 888 Fund has been established to offer an investment product tailored to meet the needs of wealthy investors wishing to migrate to Australia. The fund is aimed at entrepreneurs and business people - primarily in China - who wish to move to Australia ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
The Australian share market is more than one per cent higher in a fourth consecutive day of volatile, one per cent-plus moves on the market. The market on Thursday looks on track for its eighth such swing in 11 sessions. Thursday's opening sharp jump ...

LUCRF Super extends Community Partnership Trust to SA

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
Australia's first industry super fund, LUCRF Super has launched its LUCRF Community Partnership Trust in South Australia. Senator Anne McEwen officially launched the Community Partnership Trust in Port Adelaide on 2 July. She announced Western Youth ...

WA Local Super gets MySuper licence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
WA Local Super has become the first Western Australia-based super fund to be awarded its MySuper licence. The industry fund, which originally catered to local government employees but is now open to the general public, has funds under management of ...

Challenger in $602m alliance with Federation shopping malls

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Challenger has entered into an agreement to buy half shares in six Federation shopping malls in a deal worth $602 million. The asset manager will take a 50% stake in regional shopping centres in Bankstown and Roselands in New South Wales as well as ...

Rothschild credit fund soft-closes after solid family office inflows

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
Rothschild's Merchant Banking arm has soft-closed its Five Arrows Credit Solutions (FACS) fund at a,-235 million after seeing strong inflows from family office, high net worth and global institutional clients. The private debt fund is focused on the ...

Melbourne-based BDM joins Morningstar

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Morningstar Australasia has appointed Guy Callaghan as Melbourne-based business development manager to further enhance the firm's sales and client relationship management efforts. "We're working with an increasing number of dealer groups, brokers, institutions ...

ASIC drops charges against Westpoint directors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
Proceedings against former Westpoint directors Norman Carey and Graeme Rundle have collapsed after the regulator discovered a surprise document, two weeks into the trial. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) said it had disclosed ...

Research reveals gender gap in share appetite

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
Women under the age of 35 have a greater preference for shares than their male counterparts, according to the latest findings of the CFSGAM-UWA Business School Equity Preference Index (EPI). The research, conducted jointly between Colonial First State ...