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IFSA heads to China and HK

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
An Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) delegation is visiting Hong Kong and China to develop closer links between Australia and the region. The group is made up of senior industry representatives and government officials from Austrade ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market has received a weak lead from overseas markets, with Wall Street ending mixed on Friday and commodities lower. At 0736 AEST, however, the September share price index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was up ...

Econocrats pour cold water on mortgage agency

The Australian government's two key economic agencies yesterday reiterated their view that the market for mortgage-backed securities would recover, and that there was no case for any form of government-sponsored mortgage funding agency. In his opening ...

nabInvest buys stake in Singapore REIT

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
NAB's investment arm, nabInvest, sets its sights on Singapore's growing real estate investment trust (REIT) market when it formed a joint venture with Singapore-based real estate manager Oxley Capital to buy a stake in Cambridge Industrial Trust (CIT). ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today as recent US optimism ebbed and oil reversed its recent decline. At 0732 AEST, the September share price index futures contract on the Sydney Futures exchange was 58 points lower at 4,917. ...

Account switching is too much trouble

In a parallel for consumer complaints about the difficulty in changing super funds, a new survey has shown that a majority of people think switching banks is too much of a hassle. Fifty-four per cent of the 2000 respondents to a Research International ...

Basis to repay $23m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
Investors that applied for units in Basis Capital funds in June last year are closer to receiving more than $23 million back after the Supreme Court of New South Wales judged in their favour. The judgement includes investors in the Basis Yield and Basis ...

Introducing the Burnie Pub PDS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
The government moves to scrap Latin-like, 100-page product disclosure statements (PDSs) in favour of plain English four-page forms by creating a template to prove it can be done. Today Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law ...

Sparks fly at APRA statistics forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
A forum convened by APRA to discuss their superannuation statistical surveys became one of the most heated seminars the industry has seen in years as the regulator reacted to heavy criticism that they are not properly reporting investment returns. Charles ...

AdviserLogic launches planner-friendly software

It was more than three years in the making but a former financial planner has collaborated with a tax specialist and a leading IT expert to create a planning software that promises a better IT platform for small to mid-size planning practices. AdviserLogic ...