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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 ...

Aussie funds fail transparency test

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... Morningstar said in its Global Fund Investor Experience 2011 report. They were the only two countries out of 22 involved in the study to lack mandatory holdings disclosure, with quarterly disclosure considered to be world's best practice, the report ...

Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... Light, sweet Libyan crude is mostly exported to Europe, but Bruce Robinson, convenor of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, said any affected market would push up prices across the board. Robinson called for an oil vulnerability ...

Blue-collar workers shun advice: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
A study found that a segment of the Australian population is more likely to fall prey to dodgy financial products because it is 'not their nature' to seek professional financial advice. In a study conducted late last year, "Unemployed and struggling ...