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Another Dimension to DFA

Flush from the success of its current suite of products, leading fund manager Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has today launched a new fund that follows the same winning formula but with a global tilt. DFA senior portfolio manager Andrew Cain said that ...

Beware of Christmas credit card fraud

Leading credit card research firm CANNEX has urged consumers to watch their credit card transactions over Christmas as high credit card usage over the period increases the chances of fraud. "In recent years, Australians on average spend between 15 per ...

Data quality a global problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
According to a new survey by AIM Software, the global financial industry continues to struggle complying with Basel II, Markets in Financial Instruments Directives and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, citing data quality as their biggest problem. The survey ...

Ex-FAI financial controller sentenced

Antony Boulden, 42, a former financial controller of the corporate and professional insurance division of FAI General Insurance Company (FAIG), was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment to be served by periodic detention. Boulden was sentenced after earlier ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
ABS international trade data shows that Australia's trade imbalance increased in October by $535 million on the revised September figure to tally to a deficit of $1.26 billion. Exports rose by about 2 per cent to $18,047 million whereas imports rose ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is set to review all of its externally managed investments and move as many as possible in-house, part of a new strategy spearheaded by the group's recently appointed chief investment officer, Leo de ...

ING's OneAnswer strides past $15b

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
ING's OneAnswer platform has broken through the $15 billion barrier thanks to increased flows spurred on by reduced fees and improved product options. In the five years since launching OneAnswer has grown to be among the top platforms in terms of funds ...

FPA should lead not follow: Bloch

The Financial Planning Association's (FPA) chief executive, Jo-Anne Bloch, has called on FPA members to lead the debate on the challenges facing the industry in her opening address at the annual FPA conference today. "We need to lead the debate instead ...

Liquidator gets 12 month suspension

Sydney liquidator Ronald Dean-Wilcocks has been suspended for 12 months from working as a liquidator after he failed to disclose conflicts of interest to his clients. Dean-Wilcocks challenged the suspension handed down in April this year but this was ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
In a bid to ensure the supply of farm labour, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) has asked the Federal Government to reduce the withholding tax on foreign workers from 29 to 13 per cent saying that the $7 billion horticulture industry could lose ...