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Fundies face tough ASIC scrutiny

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
ASIC released a new consultation paper yesterday seeking industry feedback on whether fund managers should be subject to the same rules that regulate stockbrokers when trading in share markets. This could see fund managers face tougher penalties if ...

UK edges closer to universal pension scheme

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
The ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition will push ahead with plans to introduce a universal pension scheme in the UK. Chancellor George Osborne recently gave the green light for the establishment of the National Employment and Savings Trust ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving strong, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all key markets significantly higher on the back of the US Federal Reserve's stimulus announcement on Wednesday. On the ASX24 at 0657 AEDT, the December ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from overseas, although the late announcement by the US Federal Reserve on its plan to buy $US600 billion into the US economy to stimulate recovery had a positive effect on share trading late in the offshore ...

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... year. Given these conditions, the moderation in inflation that has been under way for the past two years is probably now close to ending. Looking ahead, notwithstanding recent good results on inflation, the risk of inflation rising again over the medium ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, although the late fall on Wall Street will exercise a restraining influence on trading on Tuesday. Precious metals were lower, but base metals and oil were more buoyant. ...

UniSuper owns 5pc of Gunns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
The $25.4 billion UniSuper has become a 5 per cent shareholder of Gunns, after its fund managers increased their stakes in the controversial Tasmanian timber company last week. Simon Hudson, head of equities at UniSuper, said the 5 per cent stake is ...

Lack of confidence impedes adviser referrals

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... comfortable will take time." "Advisers don't spend enough time doing this," McCarthy promotes formal client referral programs and close working relationships with internal accounting firms, but said it would be prudent for planners to re-engage with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
The Australian market has mixed flat to positive leads from offshore trading overnight on Friday. On the ASX24 at 0655 AEDT, the December share price index contract was 17 points higher at 4,664 points. In economics news on Monday, the Reserve Bank ...

Goodman makes play for $1.2 billion ING REIT

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... diligence, and tellingly, Foreign Investment Review Board approval. The fund had a market value of $1.2 billion at yesterday's close, and $3.2 billion in assets under management - invested in industrial property across Australia, Canada and Europe. The ...