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Wizard founder builds Yellow Brick Road

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... Davies have joined forces to create new retail advice and wealth management company Yellow Brick Road (YBR). The company will focus on after-tax returns, offering advice, accounting, wealth management and insurance and estate planning, as well as stockbroking ...

Super boomtimes as confidence goes stratospheric

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
... Economics said "workers" on higher incomes faced the greatest relative retirement shortfall. By implication then, if we focus on the low to middle income earners that the superannuation system has been designed to help, Australia's retirement income ...

Members need help comparing funds: Newspoll

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
... proper annual performance comparison. Unsurprisingly, the survey found almost everyone checked their balance, but the public focus on fees now means that 75 per cent of people now look at this indicator as well. Just over half of people said they had ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... commodities overnight and that in itself didn't really give a cushion for the index today," he said. "But realistically, the focus is very much on the movements of the US market and that's I think the key driver today." At 1202 AEST, Australia's biggest ...

HFA finds Lighthouse leads to global growth

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
HFA has agreed to purchase US-based alternative investment manager Lighthouse Partners for A$707 million in cash and shares - approximately 11 times Lighthouse's estimated FY08 EBITDA - as the new business focuses on growing its global alternatives ...

DeAM global thematic fund impresses van Eyk

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
Deutsche Asset Management's Global Equity Thematic Fund has been rated an 'A' by van Eyk on the back of strong portfolio construction and risk management. The fund focuses on global themes rather than on regional or geographic issues, according to Bill ...

Investor responsibility key to governance: Regnan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
Investors need to re-think their investment attitudes and focus more on corporate governance and long-term value than shot-term profit, according to Erik Mather, managing director of governance research house Regnan Mather said that while attitudes ...

Goldman Sachs JBWere appoints new head of equities

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... meet client needs. "Our core philosophy and process of fundamental-based, bottom-up investing is entrenched, and our team focus remains in delivering strong investment performance for clients," he said.

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... close over the 14,000 mark, after forecast-topping results from the technology and industrial sectors shifted the market's focus back to earnings optimism. That was despite Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke expressing concerns about the subprime mortgage ...

Avanteos platform fails to find buyer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... bank's platform strategy, following group executive of wealth management Grahame Peterson's comments in April that CBA should focus on one platform. However, the CBA said they "remain committed to continuing to invest in the business & and ensure we ...