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Demand for industrial property exceeds expectations

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
Investors' appetite for industrial property, especially from the self-managed super segment, is ahead of expectations, inflows into one property fund manager's specialist product indicate. Charter Hall has announced that it has closed its Direct Industrial ...

Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... unwinding its bond purchases a little bit further down the road. Calmer nerves in the bond markets (and record low domestic interest rates) have prompted investors to resume their quest for higher yields and therefore, purchases of bank stocks. But it's ...

Cbus, FPA explain their referral deal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and Cbus explain how their pilot professional advice referral service will work. First of all, it will run from January to June 2014 and be available to Cbus members in Queensland, South Australia ...

Industry Funds Management name change

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Global fund manager Industry Funds Management (IFM) has changed its name to IFM Investors. The organisation was founded over 20 years ago and is owned by 30 major superannuation funds. It invests its $48 billion funds under management on behalf of five ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Australian stocks have jumped to fresh five-year highs in response to gains on global stock markets on Friday night. The local market has climbed more than half a per cent to its higher level since mid 2008. "It looks like a good firm opening and that ...

Dalton Nicol Reid consistency rewarded with Lonsec upgrade

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Dalton Nicol Reid (DNR)'s flagship Australian Equities High Conviction Portfolio has received a 'Recommended' rating from research house Lonsec. The model portfolio aims to outperform the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index by 4% per annum over rolling three ...

Shorten gives Ripoll shadow superannuation portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... Treasurer Andrew Leigh, and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer Ed Husic. Ripoll has had a long standing interest in superannuation and financial services and is most widely known for his role as Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee ...

Former Trio director provides enforceable undertaking

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
A former director of Trio Capital, Kurt Groeneveld has provided the prudential regulator with an enforceable undertaking excluding him from acting as a superannuation trustee for three and a half years. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...

Advisers dismiss Medicare-style advice service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... more money, they'll have had a great experience with a financial adviser who is giving advice to them for their best interest. "I think that all of us as professionals sharing financial literacy, sharing our knowledge, it comes back to you in abundance." ...

Advisers need to overcome financial planning stigma

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
The industry needs to face the fact that people trust their own financial planner, but they don't have confidence in financial planning as a general concept. The Financial Planning Standards Board (FSPB) United States chief executive Noel Maye said ...