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Ahead of the pack

FINANCIAL STANDARD IS THE MEDIA PARTNER OF THE MFSS.  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Every industry needs game changers - a select crowd that stirs the pot or keeps raising the bar for everyone else. In financial services, they can be found within the ranks of the innovators and the pioneers. Early next month the Australian Centre for ...

HUB24 managed account gets thumbs up

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Standard & Poor's Fund services has awarded a 'STRONG' rating to HUB24's separately managed account (SMA) platform. HUB24, a subsidiary of ASX listed boutique stockbroker Investorfirst, launched the SMA platform in early 2010. S&P noted that the manager ...

US reforms open doors for tax-savvy advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
Financial planners in the US have welcomed proposed reforms that will call to an end a government ruling that stops them from recommending certain tax strategies. The planning industry welcomed the decision of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
"There's a kind of hush (rush) all over the world tonight... So listen very carefully, closer now and you will see what I mean. It isn't a dream..." --Carpenters Just like Italy's Emperor (Silvio Berlusconi) was allegedly photographed with showgirls ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving weak leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street flat, European markets mixed, Asian markets mostly closed, while precious metals were higher. Oil was down slightly. On the ASX 24 at 0642 AEDT, the March ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market was higher at noon on materials, while insurers made gains following the smaller than expected impact of Cyclone Yasi. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 9.7 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 4,806.2, while the ...

Plum pickings in international equities: K2

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
K2 Asset Management's head of international strategy Nick Griffin believes that a maturing economic recovery will fuel earnings growth and higher international equity prices in 2011. Griffin said that equity valuations remain compelling, in both absolute ...

IRESS to launch iPad-friendly XPLAN

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
IRESS Market Technology plans to launch new iPad-based adviser tools that will allow advisers to operate solely on their iPad. "We've got new tools coming out specifically designed to allow the advisers to interact with the client on an iPad and face-to-face," ...

Avoid AMP Aussie shares fund: Morningstar

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
Morningstar has rated the AMP Capital Australian Shares fund as 'avoid', citing instability in the investment team and high staff turnover as key reasons to the fund's rating. In a research note to advisers this morning, research house Morningstar said ...

AMP won't be fifth banking pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
AMP's decision to strengthen wealth management, not banking, should it merge with AXA just made the government's task of bringing more competition in banking that much harder. Craig Dunn, AMP managing director, told ABC television yesterday that the ...