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Planners hungry for geared investments - Westpac

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Financial advisers are stepping up their interest in gearing linked products, according to Westpac, which recently completed an investor road show across Australia.

Property managers stifled by lenders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Property fund managers remain concerned by the lack of access to financing from major lenders, with no notable improvement in the last year, according to the Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA).

Leveraged ETF risk laid bare

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Morningstar's co-head of fund research Tim Murphy caused a stir at the research firm's investment conference when he showed the risks of US-style synthetic ETFs at a panel session in Sydney on Friday.

$14 billion looking for a home

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
The biggest wave of freed-up money to hit the market in years will be looking for a home next month with $14 billion worth of bonds set to mature, a credit market expert has said.

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
A former billionaire US hedge fund player has been found guilty of a spate of insider trading charges and could be slapped with a 19.5 year jail sentence.

IMCA: International expert to speak on the development of debt markets in emerging global economies.

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
The investment management consultants association (IMCA) has secured renowned global macro strategist, Dr Tom Higgins, as guest speaker at their upcoming seminar, to be held in Sydney on Wednesday, 18 May and Melbourne on Thursday, 19 May.

Goldman Sachs downgraded but fixed interest pays

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Active Australian fixed interest funds performed well in 2010, according to Standard & Poor's Fund Services, which upgraded two managers and downgraded one.

Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Extended relief for compulsory pension fund draw-downs, encouragement for super funds to invest in infrastructure and a reiteration of the promise to increase the super guarantee to 12 per cent were functions of a budget that commentators labeled bland.

Budget 2011: minor investors cut short

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Investments on behalf of minors may now be cut short after the federal budget has shut down minor access to the Low Income Tax Offset (LITO).

China's HNWs hold $1.2tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
China's economy is now advancing so quickly that its high net worth sector is already worth almost as much as Australia's entire superannuation market but growing four times faster.