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The year of balanced funds and fixed income: report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
Multi sector or balanced funds took in the largest net inflows of Australian discrete asset classes in 2012, according to Morningstar's inaugural Annual Global Flows Report. The research found that multi sector funds inflows reached $6.46 billion and ...

Aussie billionaires ranked in Forbes richlist

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is, once again, the Australian furthest up the annual Forbes list of wealthiest billionaires, coming in at number 36. Forbes estimated her wealth at $17 billion and suggested that lower iron ore prices may have knocked a ...

Former Lonsec MD pleads guilty to insider trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Former managing director of stockbroking firm Lonsec Norman John Graham pleaded guilty to two charges of insider trading, the Australian Securities and Investments Comission (ASIC) announced on Friday. The charges relate to an order that Graham placed ...

Morningstar Australia announces 2013 award winners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
Morningstar today announced the winners of its annual Australian Morningstar Awards 2013, with Perpetual Investments, Perennial Partners and Hyperion among the top recipients. Perpetual Investments scooped the main gong as the Morningstar Australian ...

ASX volatility index moves to live pricing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
Australia's equity market volatility benchmark, the S&P/ASX 200 VIX (VIX), will be made available in real-time, the ASX has announced. This will provide the market with intra-day volatility information and importantly, enables ASX to create derivative ...

Maple-Brown Abbott moves into global listed infra

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
Investment manager Maple-Brown Abbott yesterday said it would launch a new global listed infrastructure investment strategy. The investment team for the new strategy will include Andrew Maple-Brown, Steven Kempler, Lachlan Pike and Justin Lannen. All ...

Still time to register for FICAP

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
There is still plenty of time for sponsors to sign up to the Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP)'s industry wide event Who wants to be a RockStar? In what FICAP says is its best sponsorship start to the year, Challenger has taken the top ...

All Ords at 5000 overvalued but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
"Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run..." -- Beer Barrel Polka by Vejvoda and IngriA! Roll out the barrel cause the All Ords' on a run. Roll out the barrel, it's broken five thousand! It's ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Despite experts warning of a bond bubble, US mutual fund investors poured US$304 billion into bond funds last year. According to figures from the US Investment Company Institute, the bond fund inflows trounced the $153 billion that was withdrawn from ...

Insurance broker pleads guilty to theft

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Insurance broker Bruce Wickett pleaded guilty to stealing close to $700,000 of clients' money over a seven month period. Wickett of Frankston, Victoria, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with three counts of theft totalling $662,198.39 ...