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452 Capital retains 'three stars' rating

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Standard & Poor's has backed the 452 Capital investment team to deliver solid returns despite the fund manager's co-founder and lead portfolio manager, Peter Morgan, being forced to take extended leave for medical reasons. The ratings firm placed two ...

RFM to bring cashflow back to Great Southern MIS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Breaking out from the usual tradition of failed managed investment schemes being wound up, the newly-appointed responsible entity of two Great Southern almond schemes are giving investors another option that could get them more of their capital back. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
Australian shares are expected to open lower after Wall Street indices were down overnight, and commodity prices fell. At 0822 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 54 points lower at 4,664. In economic news on ...

Austock appoints former Merrill chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
Austock Group has appointed former chief executive at Bank of America - Merrill Lynch Australia, Paul Masi, as chief executive and managing director of the group. Masi has held a number of investment positions at BZW during the 1990s including head ...

Hasting sells off HUT stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Hastings Infrastructure Fund has sold its 21 per cent unit holding in the Hastings Utilities Trust. The trust is a single purpose entity which owns an equity interest in ElectraNet. HIF was formed in 2004 to provide retail investors with exposure to ...

ASIC cancels Hedge Securities licence

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
No answers to phone calls, no longer in operation - ASIC has cancelled Hedge Securities and Investments's Australian financial services licence after finding the company had ceased to carry on a financial services business. ASIC found that Hedge Securities ...

More SMSFs comply with ATO rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Michael D'Ascenzo, commissioner of taxation at the Australian Tax Office, has commended the self managed super fund (SMSF) industry after the number of SMSF trustees that lodged their returns on time rose 11 per cent on the prior lodgement period. Speaking ...

Limited advice from accountants face hurdles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Tony D'Aloisio, chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), said SPAA's proposal advocating for accountants to be able to provide limited structural advice on superannuation could be impractical. Speaking yesterday at the Self ...

Good news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Another day, another good day on Wall Street overnight. It could not be any different given the good omens provided by last night's US economic data releases. Remember that inventory de-stocking that was prevalent over the past months? Seems that American ...

AXA AP angles for bigger slice of Aus market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
AXA Asia Pacific's full-year report today shed some light on why it's being courted by National Australia Bank and AMP, but also how it plans to grow its local revenues in the next few years. This morning the group announced that its profit after tax ...