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Highly educated SMSF investors prime fraud targets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Australian men aged over 50, highly educated, financially literate and managing their own super are the most likely victims of organised investment fraud, according to a new report from the ACC. Minister of Justice Jason Clare yesterday released the ...

Austock sells PFM to Folkstone

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Austock Funds Management has reached an agreement to sell its Property Funds Management business to Folkstone Limited, leaving Mariner Corporation's takeover bid in doubt. Darren Olney-Fraser, Mariner chief executive officer, told Financial Standard ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Ho-ho-hum. Been there, done that times n. Another day, another week, another month, another quarter and still financial markets continue to dance to the same old songs. They rise and fall depending on the headline of the day - though it seems to me ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
We're in trouble now... big trouble. That's the ugly picture painted by the latest US non-farm payrolls report and Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released ...

ASIC uncovers investment scam

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has obtained court orders against the operators of a Gold Coast based unlicensed financial services business, following an investigation that resulted in 37 investors losing approximately $680,000. ...

Austock bid on ice

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
A trading halt placed on the Austock Group may impact Mariner Corporation's takeover bid for the company. The trading halt followed reports that Austock chief executive Bill Bessemer was in talks with Folkestone Limited about a joint venture to run ...

GREITS for the best property on the planet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
Assembling a properly diversified property portfolio involves global diversification not just local, and that is something only global REITs can deliver because Australian funds simply don't have enough scale to do it themselves. Andrew Kavouras, head ...

Direct insurance 40% of market by 2021

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
Directly sold insurance will comprise 40% of the market within a decade and intermediaries need to be prepared to work with the growth channel rather than see it as a competitor. In 2010-11 it already accounted for 25% of life insurance sold in Australia ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... in May and June, it's hardly surprising that Australians are opening their purses once more. Retail sales grew by 0.5% in May - more than double market expectations for a 0.2% increase and the fifth straight monthly increase. While some would argue that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened more than three quarters of a per cent higher, following strong leads on Wall Street. At 1017 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.6 points, or 0.77 per cent, at 4,158.8, while the broader ...