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Asset consultants influence to grow amid industry change

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
Despite pressure on fees from a consolidating super industry, a combination of regulatory reform, increasing demand for less conventional assets and a rise in the amount of money going into super savings will magnify fund managers over-dependence on ...

Most consumers distrust advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
Less than half of Australians believe their advisers are acting in their best interest when offering products and services, according to a global investor study by the State Street Centre for Applied Research. The entitled The Influential Investor ...

Uncertainty goes uncertainty comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
"The uncertainty is the worst"... I saw this story on theage.com.au website that quoted a certain Jessica Levitt - a resident of one of the Sandy-affected cities in the States - conveying her feelings in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy - reportedly ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... Australian stock exchange at noon AGO - ATLAS IRON LTD - up two cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $1.57 Atlas Iron annual general meeting ARI - ARRIUM - in a trading halt, last traded at 80 cents Steelmaker Arrium is set to announce changes to a proposed takeover ...

Perennial defection triggers Zenith review

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
Zenith has placed three Perennial property trusts under review, after key staff moved across to Colonial First State Global Asset Management. When Perennial head of property David Kivell replaced the outgoing Steven Hayes, an exodus from the investment ...

ASIC supports updates to disclosure rules

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has welcomed the ASX's updated continuous disclosure rules and guidance, which had been the centre of much confusion in recent months. The update follows failed legal action against Fortescue ...

Urbanisation fuelling resource demand

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Despite concerns over China's slowdown, urbanisation both there and around the world will continue to fuel demand for Australian commodities, said one of Asia's largest asset managers. Recent research suggests that that another 3 billion people will ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Take one central banker's lack of faith at the recent action of the institution he serves, add rumours that a region threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. ...

Controversial short-sell ban inconclusive

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
ASIC has defended its 2008 decision to permanently ban naked short-selling and temporarily ban covered short sales, despite its report on the GFC restrictions being inconclusive as to outcome. Yesterday the regulator's deputy chairman Belinda Gibson ...

Banks take Bell Group case to High Court

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
The consortium of 20 banks involved in Australia's longest-running court case is seeking leave to appeal to the High Court. The banks, led by Westpac, lost an appeal in Western Australia's Supreme Court last month on a 2008 ruling that ordered them ...