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A week's walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... revenue you know. Yahoo too (nice ring to it 'eh?) disappointed revenue expectations. Thursday: S&P 500 down 0.7%. Excuses easy to find this time - index of US leading indicators dipped by 0.1% and Philly Fed index fell. Need I say more? Oh yes, the ...

SelfWealth announces tie up with iShares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... portfolios built around iShares' diverse stable of ETF products. "This arrangement adds real value because it provides an easy mechanism for our investment community to take action on the information they share," SelfWealth, managing director Andrew ...

BGL to provide automated property data for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... to the appropriate fund." The service is focused on helping clients provide up-to-date asset valuations and on making it easy for property valuations to be obtained for the year end audit. "At $5.5 trillion the Australian residential and commercial property ...

Wills are not enough for SMSF legacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... "With a binding beneficiary form, you only do one nomination, which lasts until you want to change it, so it is a fairly easy process," Griffiths said. "It is not difficult for people to contest a will if they feel they haven't received enough, but it ...

Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... forecasters forecasting that the unemployment rate would reach a knee-shaking 6.0% will be proved correct. Wish it was that easy. Employment surprises on the upside, raise 'em interest rates. Employment actuals come in less than predictions, lower 'em ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... 4,973.7. NEW YORK - US stocks powered to new record highs on Wednesday after Federal Reserve meeting minutes suggested the Fed's easy-money policies would remain in place for a while longer. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 128.78 (0.88 per cent) ...

Most equity investors upping overseas exposure: survey

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... also that the well documented growth of self-managed super funds (SMSF), will increase demand for access to an affordable, easy to use tools to help investors identify stocks that fit their investment profile." Skaffold Global offers access to nine international ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... midst of one now with young leader Kim Jong Un announcing that it has entered a "state of war" with South Korea. Though it's easy to dismiss this developing story - the Koreas have been at war since 1950s - there's potential that it could get out of ...

Flight to SMSFs reshape super mindset

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... mark, Rainmaker Research shows. "We're a fantastic incubator of superannuation, but for a number of reasons we don't make it easy for people to choose to stay with us during their journey," Watson said. The fund has decided to tackle this phenomenon ...

Transition to transparency, a case study

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... loaded with transparent regulatory content," she said. Atkin also explained that the transition to transparency hasn't been easy and Cbus put together a project team that studied the issue in order to determine which information had to be made public. ...