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Asia specialists join Premium China

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Premium China Funds Management has appointed four Asia investment specialists. Derek Paas, a former financial advisor at CBA and Macquarie Bank, will be based in New South Wales, having recently returned from the UK where he was most recently a senior ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
As the world rebuilds its regulatory structures around the financial system, it needs to recognise that the system is an integrated network of ecosystems, not a set of independent machines. Speaking at yesterday's Melbourne Financial Services Symposium ...

ASFA ushers year of e-commerce

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Electronic commerce for Australia's trillion dollar superannuation industry is now firmly in the sights of ASFA 's electronic commerce policy subcommittee. Driving the strategy is Graham Sammells, chief executive of the IQ Business group, who has just ...

Macq customised portfolio mgt makes the grade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has rated two Macquarie Customised Portfolio Management products, increasing the number of researcher-rated SMAs available to financial advisers. The research firm gave the MCPM Core Australian Equity SMA model fund ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market opened lower after world equity markets slumped as investors worried about higher oil prices due to violent unrest in Libya. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 23.5 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4822.4 ...

GFC hangover hits Perpetual profit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
A goodwill write-down from a pre-GFC purchase helped drag down wealth manager Perpetual's first-half profits by 29 per cent year-on-year to $35 million for the six months to December. The $10.6 million goodwill write-down comes from their 2008 purchase ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
Revolting like it's 1989. It's the feeling I get when I look to the Middle East. Just like in 1989, several regimes in one region became a thing of the past as civil uprisings in one country emboldened protests in another... then another. Back then ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received mixed to negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with nervousness stemming from unrest in the Middle East and concerns over possible economic tightening in China contrasting with positive economic news in Europe. ...

AUI signs up fixed income veteran

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has created a new fixed income team through a joint venture with experienced fund manager Bill Bovingdon. Former Aberdeen CEO Bovingdon set up a boutique funds management business called Altius Asset Management, focusing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
The Australian share market continued falling on Monday, with investors taking profits amid sentiment subdued by concerns over contagion from civil unrest in the Middle East. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 44.9 points at 4,891.8 ...