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HFA to meet full year forecast

Less than a year since its public listing, absolute return fund manager HFA Holdings has announced it is on track to meet full year profit forecasts and has flagged upcoming changes to the management board. Listing on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) ...

ATO to create single lost super gateway

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is to create a single and simplified gateway for people looking to find their lost or unclaimed superannuation. The ATO will do this by rationalising its existing processes to identify actual lost members, obtain ...

Rainmaker's CompareOnline now compares 385 super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Rainmaker's CompareOnline super fund comparative web software for financial planners and super funds now compares 385 funds representing 18 million members and $460 billion in assets. "SelectingSuper's CompareOnline provides financial advisers, paraplanners ...

Devote 20 per cent or more to direct property: ADPIA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
The Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) said investors should be allocating at least 20 per cent of their portfolios to direct property. An analysis of asset class performance data for the last 10 and 20 years, undertaken by Atchison ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
Consumers waste up to $2 billion per year in fees on unnecessary multiple accounts and it's time something was done about it, CHOICE said in watershed report released yesterday. The report by the peak consumer group CHOICE, The Super Secret: how multiple ...

The manager matters in private equity: Unigestion

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
With all the noise around private equity, many institutional investors are all ears for how they can jump aboard the PE freight train. European buyout specialist Unigestion has highlighted some of the distinct opportunity sets for Australian investors ...

FPA reports finances and enrolments on the up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
Ahead of its annual general meeting (AGM) on 24 November, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced an operating surplus of $606,000 as well as record enrolments into the CFPA(R) program. The surplus means that FPA cash reserves have been ...

Westpac appoints new REIT manager

Lianne Buck has left her post as fund manager of the newly launched Westpac Residential Property Trust (WRPT) and has been replaced through an internal promotion. Buck resigned due to personal reasons, with her partner accepting a job overseas. Taking ...

Big banks pursue more exotic securitisation schemes

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
ANZ is to double its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) business volumes to $2.2 billion using a deal offered through Resonance Funding Series 2006-1, a special purpose vehicle that will bundle a coupon rate through 110 corporate loans held by the ...

Scam targets ethnic community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned investors to be wary of investment schemes targeted at specific communities after it acted to shut down a scam targeting the Australian Chinese community. ASIC investigations uncovered ...