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Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

FPA board approves move away from commissions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
The Financial Planning Association of Australia's board has approved the association's remuneration policy that moves its members away from a commission-based model by July 2012. The FPA received more than 250 responses to its consultation paper "Financial ...

Unlisted assets should be limited: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) said to protect liquidity, super funds should have limits on how many illiquid investments they can hold. John Brogden, IFSA chief executive, told ABC BusinessLateLine last night that "We believe ...

Tower taps UK trends to upgrade insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
The life insurer who won the year's largest insurance mandate from a super fund, Tower Australia, has tapped the UK market's latest trends to boost its flagship Accelerate platform. Tower is unveilling its new Accelerated Protection platform - an improved ...

Aviva SMA attracts $10m in six weeks

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... net few months. "Advisers are recognising the enormous potential of the SMA for so many of their clients. This early interest demonstrates the confidence advisers have in the SMA," said Stuart Fechner, distribution development manager at Aviva.

High fees barrier to infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... lower risk core infrastructure. "We certainly have not been positive about those vehicles and we haven't seen a lot of interest from our client base for that kind of vehicles," said Trevillyan. Another issue lies in the relatively new teams that head ...

Invesco buys Morgan Stanley's retail arm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... unit investment trusts. The transaction was made up of cash and stock and gives Morgan Stanley a 9.4 per cent equity interest in Invesco. This expand Invesco's organisation by around 650 investment, distribution and operations support staff. Invesco ...

Centro execs to face tough penalties

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... Trust for the year to June 2007. It also argued that the financial reports included material misstatements that reported interest bearing liabilities of each of the relevant entities that were incorrectly classified as non-current liabilities rather ...

25 bps to win Melbourne Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... weeks to go till 3 November, punters are already eagerly punting on either Viewed or Efficient to win and the RBA to lift interest rates by 25 or 50 basis points. Both Viewed and Efficient are now at A$6 to win the Cup with TAB Sportsbet, ahead of Speed ...

Future Fund trumps market, but only just

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
The $64 billion Future Fund returned 5.6 per cent (ex-Telstra) in the latest quarter, marginally more than what was delivered by asset sector benchmarks. A June quarter versus September quarter analysis of the numbers shed some light on how the fund's ...