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Macquarie top mandate catchers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... equal third alongside State Street Global Advisers and BlackRock with 10 new mandates each for the year to December, the study said. Macquarie Group won three mandates in Australian equities, two in international equities, four in property, six in Australian ...

China's HNWs hold $1.2tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Australia grew 6 per cent per annum over the period, China's HNW investable assets pool grew 25 per cent per annum. The study finding that individuals with more than $15 million or more in investable assets to be the fastest growing segment points to ...

Fin services lend weight to East Timor education

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... Timorese, particularly women. This year, eMerge is scoping out the possibility of funding 'barefoot nursing', a one-year study for those who might not necessarily have a formal educational background but want to be equipped with basic healthcare skills. ...

Planners upscale with managed accounts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... environment. It's also a way to forge closer planner-client relationships. Potter pointed out the ASX 2010 Share Ownership Study that found there were twice the number of investors who asked for share advice from planners than from stand alone brokers. ...

Direct investors dump managed funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... intermediated investing, with Managed Accounts and self-managed super funds expected to be a major beneficiary. "The 2008 Study identified a quite large segment (23 per cent of investors) that preferred to delegate the management of investments to others. ...

Selection the key as mining stocks surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... companies in 2010 but fund managers are highlighting the need to be extremely selective with investments. According to a study by accounting firm KPMG, miners BHP Billiton, Fortescue Metals, Rio Tinto and Newcrest Mining contributed 47 per cent of the ...

High net worth clients being under advised

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... survey of 1,287 US investors, with tax strategies and estate planning the biggest gaps. The Dow Jones Affluent Investor Study found advisers don't do enough to leverage their bonds with clients to provide advice for broader financial needs when it looked ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... to $85.94. Rio Tinto on Friday said it had approved spending $US238 million ($A228.42 million) to advance a feasibility study for extending the life of Kennecott Utah Coppers Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake City, in the United States. Major lenders ...

AustralianSuper assets under 'climate change' test

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... it has been continuously developing its approach to climate change and was recently involved with Mercer's groundbreaking study on the impact of climate change on investments. The super fund, a member of climate change initiatives UNPRI, IGCC and CDP ...

New index launched to track super knowledge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... super, according to research released at the Conference of Major Super Funds on the Gold Coast. The results of the first study in a biennial series, Tuning into Super, were released at the three-day conference this week, tracking the engagement of Australians ...