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IWL snaps up BOSS Software

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2006
... VisiPlan platform. BOSS supplies analysis software to the insurance and financial planning market, including their Life Research, Risk Dimensions and Multi Dimensions software. IWL said it plans to integrate the technologies and foresees development ...

S&P to rate its raters

... international property and equity funds have added pressure on ratings agencies to provide broader and more rigorous research on the financial products they rate. Michelle Baltazar

MacarthurCook boosts retail team

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
... planning groups. "We have spent three years building up our investment team, investment funds, investment performance and research ratings. "Our latest initiative is designed to further the penetration of MacarthurCook's funds at both the retail and ...

Single women a rising force in residential property

... that at least one in five single women will be buying a property for themselves by 2010. Ellis said this is in line with research data overseas. Based on data from the National Association of Realtors in the US, for example, single women outpace single ...

Chinese businesses upbeat but worried about compliance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... were revealed in the latest Business Owners Survey by Grant Thornton International (GTI), who has just completed a major research survey of the Chinese business market. The findings also highlight the importance Australian business places on China, however ...

Grange scores new equities director and researcher

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... said that at Grange he will have a great opportunity to expand the equities desk and to enhance the delivery of quality research and execution services for institutional investors. In other Grange recruitment news, Andrew Butterell has also been appointed ...

1 in 4 Australians have more than one super fund: ICAA

A recent survey has found that 27 per cent of Australian adults hold multiple super funds. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) surveyed 1,200 Australians last month seeking to discover the real impact of the super choice legislation ...

SMSFs turning to managed funds

... were released yesterday by AMP Capital Investors and Investment Trends, whose Director Mark Johnston, said this latest research shows a marked change in SMSF investment attitudes since last year. "We have seen a big increase of one in five, [which now ...

Women like risk, men think too much

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
... investment products that better suit individuals. Tracey McNaughton, senior economist with BT Financial Group, presented her research at the CMSF forum yesterday. The findings bore out the theory that investors are not rational, despite what economic ...

Super funds to inject $1.5bn more into Aussie hedge funds

... fund strategies at the expense of their Asian and European hedge funds allocation. Another interesting finding from the research was that the respondents considered corporate governance as a higher priority than historical returns. The UNSW's Associate ...