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New benchmarks act like analysts

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... stock-pickers out of a job, the product's developer has said. Investment services firm Russell Investments has developed a series of portfolio construction tools with partner firm Axioma that take a standard index such as the S&P 200 and adds an analysis ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... York and rose in London as forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi continued to attack rebels seeking his ouster. A series of massive explosions erupted into fireballs near an oil facility outside the rebel-held town of Ras Lanuf. On Wall Street ...

Management shake up at Zurich

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Zurich Financial Services Australia has embarked on a series of management changes as it aligns itself closer to its parent global structure. Zurich will maintain two clear operating businesses, general insurance, and life insurance and investments ...

FPA to reset membership criteria

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... 2013, only those with undergraduate degrees will be able to join, if the vote is passed. The organisation is holding a series of roadshows, including tomorrow in Sydney, to explain proposed changes to members. Debate is expected to be lively especially ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... the global financial system prior to the GFC. They were missed because the financial system was viewed incorrectly as a series of independent machines that pump money into and out of the economy, with only minimal focus on intra-system interactions. ...

FPA slams industry fund 'one track agenda'

ELISE BURGESS, ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... Warner research will be difficult however as the consultant was used by the FPA in their long term Value of Advice research series. "Rice Warner estimated the Government's opt-in proposal will cost industry $28 million of the $1.6 billion in fees they ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... gained about seven per cent so far this month ahead of its annual results, and partly led by property stocks following a series of steep falls for the sector. Hong Kong-based investment bank Core Pacific-Yamaichi said traders were picking up on more ...

Instreet taps adviser demand for commodities

INSTREET UPDATE  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Boutique investment house Instreet has launched a series of new products designed to give investors access to commodities, Asian equities and Australian equities. Instreet has added another five customised investments from its Link and Mast Series ...

Developed nations raise funds for ADB

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... cooperatives. The project will also improve financial literacy in poor households through an innovative television drama series," said Betty Wilkinson, senior finance specialist (microfinance) in ADB's East Asia Department. ADB, based in Manila, is dedicated ...

MLC cuts two mandates in new strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... manager. Changes to MLC IM's Australian shares strategy have created separate domestic equities strategies for the Horizon series and MLC Australian Share Fund, with separate managers and mandates. "We therefore believe it is appropriate to separate ...