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Admin costs rise four-fold off-platform: research

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
Advisers who choose to go off-platform when handling client investments could be hit with higher admin costs, in one case four times more compared with staying on-platform, research found. The report undertaken by Praxis Partners and commissioned by ...

Five Oceans CIO steps down

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
Five Oceans Asset Management's Chris Selth has stood down from his role as chief investment officer. He will move to a consultancy position within the firm to enable a smooth transition in his responsibilities. Portfolio managers Kim Tracey and Piers ...

South Africa leads foreign investment in the continent

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
South Africa has received the largest share of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the African continent, with the figure rising more than five-fold from $1.2 billion in 2010 to $6.4 billion in 2012. The figures came from the 'Global Investment Trends ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Get behind me Satan! I was ever so tempted to simply regurgitate the financial headlines and commentaries and blogs that went blinkety-blink on my screen this morning. It would have made my day a bit easier. The headlines differed yes...but at the same ...

Less is more with in-house investment: Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
Going against the grain of super funds that continue to expand their in-house investment teams, the Future Fund's infrastructure team prefers to use outside experts to help manage their portfolios. The Future Fund's allocation into infrastructure is ...

IRESS launches XPLANtouch app

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
IRESS has launched the XPLANtouch tablet application for financial advisers, a tool that allows advisers to access client data and portfolios in real time. XPLANtouch is an extension of the XPLAN advice platform and is available on all tablets including ...

MLC launches retirement stress test tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
MLC has launched the new MasterKey Investment Protection Simulator, which allows advisers to enter investment details and see how a client's nest egg will fare in different market conditions. Advisers will be able to adjust factors such as superannuation ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
The Australian share market has opened lower over renewed jitters about the euro zone, following a bailout deal for Cyprus. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said the Australian market had opened in a pretty sombre mood. Markets overseas had initially ...

Superannuation to wield $6tr muscle by 2030

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
A group of superannuation and investment experts predict that by 2030, local super funds will dominate the global landscape while the self-managed super funds (SMSFs) sector will suffer a slowdown. The superannuation industry in 2030 will be bigger ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
You gotta give it to the Europeans, they sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Financial markets celebrated after reports that a deal had been struck between the government of Cyprus and its benefactors. Nobody gave two hoots whether it's a ...