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NAB/AXA merger not anti-competitive: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... 'overstated', following the group's 34,000 interviews of managed fund providers in the year to February. According to their study, the six largest players in funds management - NAB, CBA, AMP, Westpac, ANZ and AXA - account for 28.9 per cent of the market ...

Trust is a hard currency: research

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... Goldman Sachs, Wells said the same message of communication applies. Wells worked with research house Investment Trends to study hundreds of communication messages and strategies coming out of financial firms in the US and UK last year. "There was so ...

Super too complex to handle

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST AT THE SECURITY ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN ADELAIDE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... to seek advisers and, despite all these challenges, good advice is still worth it," he said. According to a KPMG Econtech study last October, the average investment balance of an investor with a financial planner is around $50,000 in 2007-08, some 20 ...

More super funds to introduce performance pay: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... McGuirk Management Consultants, in alliance with industry body Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL), did a remuneration study in February this year that gives an insight to how super fund executives are being remunerated in the last two years - a period ...

Aussie planners overworked: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... eight-hour day and close to a third of respondents said they had not taken a holiday in the past year. This is compared to a study by The Australian Institute in 2009 that found the average Australian works 44 hours a week and the average worker in other ...

Verity and newfocus unveil marketing benchmarking study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Verity Financial Marketing and newfocus Research have launched a breakthrough study that will attempt to measure effectiveness of super fund marketing campaigns. The research has been designed by Bruce Stafford, former marketing manager at QIC and Hesta ...

Instreet hires HFA exec

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Boutique fund manager Instreet has hired former HFA Asset Management executive Sam Harris as relationship manager for New South Wales. With more than eight years of experience in the financial services industry, he brings to the role knowledge of the ...

US fund managers say long term, trade short term

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
A US-based study has found many US fund managers are churning their portfolio more often than they said they would - giving new evidence that short-termism is rife and long-termism is just lip service for many. The study found nearly two thirds of institutionally ...

Attack of the million-dollar virus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... preventing cyber attacks - an amount that keeps growing as online fraud become more sophisticated. Symantec found in the global study that 9 in 10 Australian and New Zealand companies have been the subject of cyber attacks in the past 12 months. Not ...

IFSA and Deloitte launch Future Leaders award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... support quality financial advice. Deloitte will award the winner of the Future Leaders' Award 2010 an all expenses paid study tour to an overseas destination to share ideas with a Deloitte global leader.