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New take on old fee debate

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... way a fund manager does? Tim Swift, director at Focus Financial Planning, said that would sound good in theory but not so easy in practice. "Definitely, most clients are probably along the lines of saying 'if I win, you win but if I lose, you lose'. ...

Aviva offers auto re-weighting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... "[This feature] allows tolerance ranges to be tailored for individual clients, allowing the adviser to find a balance between easy maintenance of the client's risk profile and minimising tax and unnecessary transactions," Barker said. "At the moment ...

In cash we trust

... fortuitous investment move made by the $70 billion fund manager more than twelve months before the market rout began. While it's easy to count the amount lost by the average super fund in the past month, it's worth highlighting recent Rainmaker Data ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... 1992. Meantime, Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index experienced its largest fall since the September 11 2001. With the days of easy credit all but over, Martin van Vliet, economist at ING Bank in Amsterdam expects European banks to make it harder for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... During the morning, the domestic currency traded between a low of $US0.8782 and a high of $US0.8844. A senior dealer with Easy Forex, Francisco Solar, said Citigroup's announcement that it had posted a fourth-quarter loss of $US9.83 billion ($A10.95 ...

Super advice for $199

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... only require simple advice on what they may require for a comfortable retirement. "Westpac's $199 Super Health Check is an easy to understand and low cost advice solution to make it simpler and more affordable for investors to answer these questions ...

Better beta through fundamental indexing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... investment strategy," he said. It also creates problems for country allocations in your global portfolios. Rather, Hsu said an easy solution is to use "non-price" factors to build your passive investments, though the challenge is to be careful that the ...

The lighter side of super: HESTA

... sacrifice/co-contributions and making extra contributions. "It's a new way for us to reach out to members who may not have easy access to field staff. The videos are only a few minutes long but the information they contain has the potential to save members ...

Asteron selects Olicc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... business efficiency is as important as increasing sales. Shaun Williams, managing director of risk management business, Risk Easy, said the partnership had reduced their workload and costs for their business. "A life company like Asteron providing us ...

Take governance seriously or lose investor support

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... their billions of dollars in investment funds. This leads to unnecessary conflicts of interests, which should in reality be easy to handle, said Martin Lawrence, lead analyst for Riskmetrics ISS Governance Services. But causing the biggest concern is ...