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Super funds need to guide members: Investment Trends

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Superannuation funds need to offer guidance for their members with Investment Trends latest survey finding people want information from their funds to understand market volatility and how they should act. The 2011 Investor Sentiment & Communications ...

Super merger prompted by industry transition

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
CareSuper and Asset Super may merge later this year to create a 285,000 strong membership base with over $6 billion in FUM, with Care CEO Julie Lander to take the reins. The funds are in discussion about a possible merger, prompted by external industry ...

CMC Markets launches new platform

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
CMC Markets has launched its new CMC Tracker platform for Australian investors. The new platform is the result of A$156m of investment over two years and aims to increase CFD trading speed and lower transaction costs. The new platform features increased ...

WA adviser receives jail sentence and reparations

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
A Western Australian man has been sentenced to over three years in jail by the Perth District Court, in a case brought by ASIC. A reparation order of $1.7 million was also made. On 26 September 2008, ASIC suspended the Australian financial services ...

SMSFs cash deposits reflect volatility

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
SMSFs trustees are hesitant investors with too much focus on cash deposits, moving $40 billion into cash products since 2009, according to a report from Vanguard and Investment Trends. This 'wall of cash', as the report calls it, has developed over ...

Opus licence decision overturned

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
The Federal Court has overturned an Administrative Appeal Tribunal's decision against the cancellation of the Australian financial services licence held by Opus Capital Limited, responsible entity for 14 unlisted property funds. ASIC's decision to cancel ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
In a month characterised by global economic doom and gloom, Australia has just received a very welcome fillip - trade mark applications by Australian businesses are up-to pre GFC levels and have broken through the 69,000 barrier. Even better news is ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
Manufacturing has just had it's Gerry Harvey moment and no amount of pro-protectionist inquiries is going to help it wind back the clock to the lazy Australian economic daze of the 1950s. In January famed business entrepreneur Gerry Harvey fronted a ...

Australian Capital Reserve directors plead guilty

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
The former directors of Australian Capital Reserve, the fundraising arm of Estate Property Group, have pleaded guilty to making false or misleading statements to obtain a financial advantage. Samuel Pogson and Murray Lapham each admitted to one charge ...

Rice Warner: opt-in cost applies to advisers in regular contact

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
The $11 per client cost of opt-in is based on the assumption that advisers are already in contact with clients at least once every two years, according to Rice Warner who made the calculation. The government yesterday said that the $11 per client includes ...