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Canadian pension fund to buy UK soccer centres

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
The UK's biggest five-a-side football pitch company, Goals, has accepted a buyout offer of 73.1 million pounds (A$110.3 million) from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Teachers' is acquiring Goals through its private equity arm, Teachers' Private ...

DomaCom to offer advisers free software

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... assess their clients' current position, financial and lifestyle objectives and match a course of action to achieve those goals in an easy to understand visual representation. The DomaCom GPS was acquired from CARM last year and will be familiar to some ...

Fitzpatricks Private Wealth builds advice profile

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... planning of private wealth clients meant specialised firms had an important role to play as facilitators in achieving wealth goals. "Our mandate is to be with the client and help them ask the right questions of other professions so they can achieve their ...

Coalition releases super manifesto

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... superannuation's tax breaks with low income earners, albeit this is minor in macroeconomic terms. These strategic policy goals were supplemented by a range of microeconomic regulatory fixes focused on excess contributions penalties and reviewing minimum ...

CBA renames corporate super fund

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... "Re-branding our fund is one important part of our strategy to maximise opportunities to support members in achieving their goals for a successful financial future," said Commonwealth Bank Group Super trustee board Chair, Neil Cochrane. Doug Carmichael ...

HSBC invests $100m in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... total aid for water access and sanitation has actually declined." The report found that were the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved, more than US$56bn per annum in economic gains would be realised by 2015. Frontier Economics also found that ...

Risk needs to shift in line with mission

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... also said that risk models in the investment industry have traditionally over-emphasised short-term success over long-term goals and return over risk. "We are increasingly defining risk as the possibility of 'impairment to mission', or as 'surviving ...

EQT fund FUM decline results in closure

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... Sharemarkets fund, the underlying investment pool that investors will be rolled into if they don't cash out, has similar goals and investment methods. The funds differ slightly in investment allocations. Unit holders wishing to receive their balance ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... consensus on economic growth prospects, as rebalancing the economy and income divisions are not short-term but rather long-term goals of the government," said Vail. "Even assuming a deceleration in growth, China would add an equivalent amount of global ...

XPLAN upgrades for goals based advice

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
IRESS has made enhancements to its software solution XPLAN, with the aim of assisting advisers in delivering goals based advice to their clients. The recently upgraded XPLAN tool helps advisers to discuss and frame up one specific goal at a time with ...