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Super fees battle competition and returns

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
... corporate fund sector." However, Rainmaker fee data to April 2007 paints a different picture, said associate director of research, Andrew Keevers. "In 2007 the key finding was that workplace super fees have increased by 8 per cent, nearly three times ...

Value planners on profitability, not scale

... running at a loss (that is, no EBIT) if you take away 'volume bonuses' or asset size-based fees, according to a market research conducted by Paragem. Knox pointed out another misconception that 'aggregation plays' or dealer groups merging to achieve ...

New blood to shake up CFS Aussie equities

... revamp its performance track record. The revolving door at CFS has kept turning in recent months. In February, senior research analyst Justin Lannen left and moved to Macquarie. Senior portfolio manager Jim Taylor has also left and is moving to BT Financial ...

HESTA joins better research alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... Analytics Initiative (EAI), an international collaboration that rewards analysts and brokers for greater depth and breadth of research and the inclusion of factors such as corporate governance, human capital management and the environment in their investment ...

Economic round-up: Yearning for a yuan inspired Asian euro

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... exert greater control over its economy, and sooner rather than later. Jim O'Neil, head of Goldman Sachs global economic research in London, suggested China needed to slow export growth as a "more effective weapon to slow the economy down." O'Neil believes ...

Super fees jump triple inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... fees to rise at nearly three times the rates of inflation," said the report's author and Rainmaker associate director of research. Keevers said while fee increases last year were driven by rising administration costs due to the introduction of super ...

Share ownership down but trading activity up: ASX

... conducted by the ASX and surveyed a randomly selected sample of more than 2,400 Australians last November. Among the research highlights were that retail share investors were doing an average of eight trades per year versus six three years ago. The average ...

Credit Suisse yield fund 'highly recommended': Lonsec

Research firm Lonsec has stamped its highest rating on a new structured product jointly developed by Credit Suisse and fixed income specialist PIMCO. Credit Suisse has teamed up with PIMCO to launch the Principal Protected Yield Fund (PPFY), a product ...

Mercer appoints ex-RBA exec as principal

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... former RBA senior manager Stephanie Weston as a principal, specialising in institutional investor advice and fixed income research. Weston will be based in Mercer's Sydney office, and brings more than 17 years experience in the banking and financial ...

Pick your stocks when they're green: SAM

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... development manager, Simon Romijn, speaking at the Financial Standard Best Practice seminar series. Romijn said 10 years of SAM research showed that sustainability-focused businesses weren't just green - they focused strongly on management best practice ...