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Applications open for investment consulting program

IMCA ANNOUNCEMENT  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... Management (CIMA) program, which begins in September this year. The course is made up of two components, an independent study program (Level 1) and a residential program and examination (Level 2). To date, the program has been completed by 100 graduates ...

Star ratings face predictability test

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Research group Morningstar has rebutted a US study that suggested its ratings system failed or virtually lost all of its predicted ability when measured over a full market cycle. In early December, Advisor Perspectives, a US-based investment trends ...

Dubai games

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... That leaves only US$2.2 billion jingle jangling in Dubai's pocket. Maybe not. For Reuters also cited a Japanese government study showing that "the Dubai government and affiliated firms owe non-financial Japanese companies roughly US$7.5 billion in credit ...

Local Govt Super upgrades property investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... consultants, CETEC, to upgrade air conditioning and lighting to improve the energy efficiency across all its buildings. The study of the indoor environmental quality, including air, visual and noise factors covered four buildings and found the annual ...

Advisers prepare for spike in insurance sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... CoreData 2009 Risk Company of the Year after performing consistently across 11 key areas of service delivery covered in the study. Tower has been awarded the runner-up gong, ahead of Aviva, with both groups Highly Commended. Zurich and AIA were fourth ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... statements that they make; they keep switching the auditor and they don't have an independent administrator." Brown said that his study revealed the non-problem funds, or those that score well based on the due diligence reports, have consistently performed ...

Disability review assesses role of insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
The Federal Government has announced a feasibility study into disability care and support services, which will review how a new system could co-exist with the injury insurance industry. The government's Productivity Commission is investigating the cost ...

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
Financial planners will struggle to get many Gen-Yers to follow financial advice after yet another study found one in four have never budgeted in their life and, even when they do, it's to blow the lot on a holiday. St. George Bank commissioned a study ...

Ignorance is not financial bliss: Fidelity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... retirement account (Ira), called the Roth Ira, and the lack of knowledge is costing them a lot of retirement money, a new study found. Research from Fidelity Investments show that many Americans are not maximising their retirement savings simply because ...

Future Fund trumps market, but only just

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... from the fund's proportionally negligible allocations to private equity, infrastructure and alternative assets. A quick study of how much the fund has poured into each asset classes over the three months to September also suggest how the fund moved to ...