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FPA checklist to guide members on super switching

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has released a checklist for its members working with clients on switching their superannuation. The checklist focuses on information gathering and comes in response to concern over legislative requirements for ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
London based fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Stenham Asset Management has started 2007 in style, being awarded the Best Long-Term Achievement Award at the European Hedge Fund of Funds Awards. It was the second year in a row that Stenham went home ...

Ignore global benchmarks: Aberdeen

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
Global benchmarks don't offer much in the way of diversification, according to Aberdeen Asset Management, but a well constructed global equities portfolio can offer investors one of the most effective means of diversification available. Andrew McMenigall ...

Vision Super eyes shopping sprees in China

Vision Super plans to cash in on China's economic growth by awarding a $38.5 million property mandate to the Macquarie Wanda Real Estate Fund, an investment vehicle focusing on Chinese shopping centres. "The opportunities in Australia's direct property ...

DFS fee model a winner

... absolute and relative capital losses. "During bull markets [2003 to present], the reverse occurs where the industry tends to focus on absolute returns given everything is going up, whereas their returns relative to the indices are not necessarily as ...

Mutiple super costs $315m: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... which is for people to manage their super. They should take action to consolidate [their funds] but what we wanted to do was focus on some of the reasons for the multiple accounts," said ASFA's Director of Research Ross Clare. The group said that resident ...

Regulators discuss streamlining some supervision operations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... and evaluating how any overlaps, inconsistencies or duplication might be reduced," they said in a joint statement. A major focus of the negotiations are duplications in licensing. "Almost all APRA-regulated authorised deposit-taking institutions, general ...

PIMCO creates new head of consultant relations role

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
PIMCO has created a new position of head of consultant relations in anticipation of a sharp upswing in interest for defensive asset classes from asset consultants. Kaylee Garden has been promoted to the newly created role of head of consultant relations ...

NAB wary of private equity but keen to play

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... balance sheet, which stands at $110 billion. Hooper said, "There is a lot of due diligence with PE - four or five times the focus of a normal deal. And there is ongoing monitoring." The bank's big play in private equity was its role as joint lead arranger ...

MFAA rules under fire

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... MFAA chief executive Phil Naylor said members met last July to review the association's constitution, with a particular focus on its membership rules. "Up until then the only members with voting rights were business members. Our aim was to move in the ...