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ETFs report wafer thin trading volumes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) ASX market capitalisation is up 44 per cent in the last 12 months to $4.7 billion but their trading volumes are still microscopically thin. Figures just released in the ASX Listed Managed Investments monthly update for May  ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... past few months, this was easy peasy. Because the unemployment rate would either go the other way or remain steady. Not in May -- there was no hiding in May. The jobless rate rose to 9.1 percent in the month from 9.0 per cent in April and against expectations ...

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... stumble. You too will be a believer brother- if you see the China's purchasing managers index dropped to nine-month low in May - just ignore the fact that at 52, the index signals continued expansion in Chinese manufacturing and that a slowdown is what ...

Proposed tough planner rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
Financial planners could face a tougher regulator, if changes to ASIC's powers go ahead. Currently under review by the Treasury, proposals include strengthened authority to ban advisers. The reforms in question propose that harsher penalties should ...

Dark pools attract larger trades and ASIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
Chi-X owner, Instinet, has launched its first dark pool product for Australian equities, at a time when regulator ASIC is looking to review the trading industry. Instinet launched its Instinet BLX Australia yesterday, which will collect multiple orders ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The global community was not in the least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger ...

Industry funds, independent platforms stand up for FOFA reforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Opponents of elements of the Future of Financial Advice have come in for a drubbing from key figures in the financial services industry in the wake of intense lobbying of the independents by financial planners. Financial advisers were instructed by ...

Vision Super remains hopeful on Equip merger

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Vision Super is confident that its merger with Equipsuper will still go ahead, despite fears that it was off after negotiations between the two hit some union hurdles, as reported by Financial Standard on May 26. "Vision Super will continue negotiations ...

Rejoice for May has gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... equities are up - big time. So too are the prices of many commodities. They all jump - big time -- on the last trading of May (a few minutes more of trading and they might have erased all of the month's losses). So what's funny about these? Glad you ...

MLC hands planners client engagement tool

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
MLC has launched a new tool for financial advisers, helping them increase engagement among their existing client base. My Client Leads is designed to identify the potential needs of clients and flag up when they may be in need of advice. According to ...