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Malaysia pioneers Islamic Finance framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Malaysia is stepping up its push to become a world centre of Islamic finance with the release of a Shari'ah Governance Framework for Islamic Financial institutions that will apply to Islamic organisations from June this year. Development of the framework ...

Bendigo wealth mgmt posts $23m profit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Bendigo & Adelaide's wealth management division accounted for 14 per cent of the bank's total profit after tax of $173.9 million in the half year to December, according to results released this morning. During the half year, the group's wealth arm contributed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Easing of political tensions in Egypt has seen risk appetite return to the Australian share market, which was up one per cent at noon. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 48.7 points, or one per cent, at 4,929.6, while the broader All ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads leading into Monday's trade, with offshore markets buoyed following the departure overnight on Friday of Egyptian president Mubarak. On the ASX 24 at 0645 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract ...

Sunsuper launches planner scholarship

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Sunsuper addresses gender diversity in financial services by funding scholarships designed for budding female financial planners. The inaugural Marion Munro scholarship, established in honour of a Sunsuper financial planner who lost her life to breast ...

Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
Leading superannuation expert and academic John Evans believes there are more ways to develop the annuities market than are currently being explored. The uncertainty attached to longevity, or people outliving their savings, and its impact on the wider ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian market has flat to mixed negative leads from offshore trading overnight. The Dow ended higher, but Wall Streets's other key indices were lower, as were European and Asian markets in Wednesday trade. Precious metals were higher, but oil ...

Russell fast track after-tax investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
Russell Investments has flagged plans to release more products that will appeal to super funds focused on after-tax returns, not pre-tax performance. The Russell After-Tax Australian Shares Fund (for Superannuation Investors) applies both pre- and after-tax ...

Westscheme merges with AustralianSuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
The merger of AustralianSuper and Westscheme announced today would create a $40 billion super fund with 1.7 million members, further cementing AustralianSuper's ranking as Australia's biggest super fund. In a joint press conference at 1pm today, long-time ...

Macq gives update on US arm

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Homegrown fund manager, Macquarie Funds Group, now among the largest Australian-based asset managers after it bought US-based fund manager Delaware in January last year, gives an optimistic update on its overall wealth management business. According ...