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ASIC retains key role as fin planning regulator: Shorten

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will retain its role as sole regulator for the financial planning industry but will work with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) to maintain standards in tax advice. The Treasury released its ...

CREATE predicts golden age for stockpickers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
This decade could prove to be a 'golden age' for stock pickers, rather than the 'ice age' that had been predicted, according to an academic. US and European investment houses are increasingly moving towards a 'bucket approach', with up to 50 per cent ...

AvSuper crunches numbers with new calculator

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
Online calculators may be a dime a dozen in finance land but a growing number of super funds, including AvSuper, are trying a different tack by customising their online tools to the specific needs of their members. The super fund launched the online ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian market has flat to mixed negative leads from offshore trading overnight. The Dow ended higher, but Wall Streets's other key indices were lower, as were European and Asian markets in Wednesday trade. Precious metals were higher, but oil ...

Year of the Rabbit, year of acquisitions: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Seven out of 10 investment analysts are bullish about the prospects of Asian companies this year and expect many of these cashed-up businesses to grow through acquisitions and palm excess cash as higher dividends to shareholders, a survey found. The ...

Pinnacle nabs former Wilson HTM head of wealth mgmt

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Alex Ihlenfeldt, former head of wealth management for Wilson HTM Investment Group, has joined Pinnacle Investment Management as chief operating officer to build growth opportunities for fund managers. Ihlenfeldt has over ten years experience with Wilson ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
The S&P/ASX200 index, currently sitting at around 4,800 points, could reach 6,000 this year, company director and well-regarded economist Don Stammer told the audience of last week's Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum. The 20-per cent plus upside ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
It's good in so far as it's bad. For those like me who logged on over the weekend hoping to glean clarity on America's future, the latest non-farm payrolls report outing provided none. Yes, Virginia, both the bulls and the bears would be claiming, "I ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
"Until we see a sustained period of stronger job creation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established." These were the words spoken by Big Ben at the National Press Club in Washington last night. Oh yes, these very words came out of his ...

Whatever the question, the answer is China

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
This week's Financial Standard chief economist breakfast forum heard that no matter what the economic question, the answer always seems to be China and how we seize it's opportunities, contain its inflation threats and redirect its capital flows. The ...