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Responsible investing begins at home

PRI RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
Chief executives globally are calling on mum-and-dad investors to demand a greater focus on sustainability and build momentum behind responsible investing. An Accenture and UN Global Compact survey found 86 per cent of chief executives want investors ...

Basis Capital lesson far from over

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... transparency," he said. "You don't know what you're investing into." "At the end of the day, it's difficult to sit down with a mum and dad to say 'this is exactly what you invested in' - it becomes a leap of faith." While more hedge funds are increasingly ...

BT/Advance multi-manager makes stronger global push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
Advance Investment Solutions, the combined BT Financial Group and Advance multi-manager teams following the Westpac/St. George merger, has completed a year-long review of its manager list, and the new line-up is more global in flavour. Patrick Farrell ...

Lessons learned from Opes Prime

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... (Australian Master Securities Lending Agreement) was not suitable for many individual investors, particularly less savvy mum and dad investors, who signed up with Opes Prime. But it stopped short of recommending the banning of these products from investors. ...

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... where their money goes is an eye-opener. For example, while some Gen Yers have long been chided for relying on the 'mum-and-dad' bank, they are also a generation that has created the 'mates' bank, with 87 per cent of Gen Yers borrowing and lending money ...

ASIC slaps six year ban for MIS fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Mum-and-dad investors in South Australia have been caught out in a $15.2 million fraud carried out by yet another finance company operating without a financial services licence. ASIC has banned Jonathan Peter West, of Athelstone, South Australia from ...

Super breakthrough for SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... means millions of people who previously couldn't access the product can now do so. "If you're talking about ordinary mum-and-dad SG contributions, which represents nearly two thirds of the industry, SMAs aren't available for that [SG contributions] at ...

Tracking hedge fund fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... returns, to investors. Last month, AIMA launched a hedge fund booklet last month for financial planners, advisers and 'mum and dad' investors to better understand hedge funds. The handbook includes information about the history of hedge funds, role of ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello's baby bonus handout and exhortation to couples to 'have one for mum, one for dad, and one for Australia'. For sure the Australian unemployment rate will trend higher as the global financial crisis progresses ...

Property downturn over: RP Data

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... "Despite the fact that quite a large proportion of that [rate cut] seems to look like it's going to be passed on to the mum and dad mortgage holders, there wasn't a particularly big upswing in mortgage application rates. "I imagine that for a fairly ...