Burgess appointment a feather in SPAA’s cap

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The high regard in which the SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) is held across the superannuation industry has been reaffirmed by AMP’s decision to recruit SPAA’s Technical Director, Peter... Read more continue reading

Morningstar wraps up Emerging Markets research

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Morningstar has released its Sector Wrap-Up for Asian equities and emerging markets equities funds, covering 18 strategies, nine in each asset class.  Key Findings We gave only one of the 18... Read more continue reading

AMP SMSF appoints Peter Burgess to new role

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AMP SMSF has added to its breadth of SMSF experts, appointing Peter Burgess to the new role of Head of Policy and Technical, commencing 10 April 2013. Mr Burgess, currently... Read more continue reading

Zenith rates NSW Waratah Annuity Bonds

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NSW Waratah Annuity Bonds – Series 5 (WAB) is designed to provide a regular, annuity style income stream over a defined term via a debenture issued by the NSW Treasury... Read more continue reading

Islamic Finance Forum provides opportunity to tap ME capital

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An Islamic investment forum being held in Melbourne on April 16 will give Australian companies the opportunity to directly tap capital from the Middle East and other Islamic countries. The... Read more continue reading

Paradice launches first retail fund

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Paradice Investment Management has launched its first fund for Australian retail investors, the Paradice Global Small Mid Cap Fund. Paradice has operated the underlying strategy since August 2010 in the... Read more continue reading

One minute update:Population lifts, inflation & borrowing subdued

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A raft of new economic data was released just before Easter. What do the figures show? The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge rose by 0.2 per cent in March to... Read more continue reading

Weekly economic & market update

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Europe continued to cause concerns for investors over the past week with Cyprus getting a new bailout deal but fears that it still sets precedents for future bank bailouts and... Read more continue reading

Is risk just another four letter word?

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Specialist research house Lonsec has highlighted risk as a key theme emerging from its most recent review of the Global Equity Funds sector.  Since the GFC, risk – or investor... Read more continue reading

ASIC finalises regulatory framework for trading Commonwealth G’vt Securities

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ASIC has amended existing market integrity rules and related guidance to help with the introduction of retail trading of Commonwealth Government Securities (CGS) depository interests on the Australian Securities Exchange.... Read more continue reading