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Vanguard tops US social media rankings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
The US branch of Vanguard has topped a survey of asset managers who were ranked for their prowess in social media, with debate about the medium's impact in Australia's wealth management raging on. Kasina, a specialist research group, rated asset managers ...

Fund managers beat the index but only just

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... 8.8% better than the benchmark. Continuum Capital Management's long-only fund Continuum Aggressive topped the one-year rankings with a return of 22.4%, beating the index by 19.4%. Manager performance on global markets was similar to that on Australian ...

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... consultant sat on the boards of Trio and Astarra. Ratings house Morningstar put three Astarra funds at the top of their rankings for both one-year, three-year and five-year performance. A Morningstar spokesman said the ratings were quantitative and that ...

Fin services group wins 'employer of choice' for women

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... positions in Australia, above the global average of 20 per cent. Australia sits sixteenth in Grant Thornton's global rankings, while Thailand is number one with 45 per cent of senior management positions held by women.

BT Financial expands into insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... full retail offering and will be available through WRAP Superannuation. IRESS has awarded BT Insurance the top quartile rankings for its Life, TPD, Trauma and IP products.

APRA releases 2010 fund level returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... funds, Unisuper and AustralianSuper, made the top 11. No mid-range $10-$25 billion funds made this elite end of the APRA rankings.. The short term one year results were even more in favour of the small funds with four of the top being less than $1 billion ...

Value Partners top Asia fund tables

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
Value Partners, the fund manager underpinning Sydney-based Premium China Fund, has once again scored top rankings in the Thomson Reuters Extel Surveys. The fifth annual survey results asked executives of several hundred firms including brokers, broking ...

Navigator tops best platform list

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... eWrap, according to a new report. Navigator won the title for 2009, after many years of "steadily rising up through the rankings", noted the 2009 Investment Trends Platform Report. It beat Avanteos (now Colonial First State Custom Solutions), which won ...

AMP circles AXA Asia Pacific

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... based on its current stock price of $5.75. The scale of the merged business would see AMP hold the number one market rankings in risk insurance, retail superannuation and retirement income in Australia. The combined businesses represent more than 4,000 ...

Consultants back super communication

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... communication messages to members. He argues that trying to achieve returns that sit on the top quartile of short-term rankings, in particular, have caused funds to be distracted from channeling communication messages that allay other investment concerns ...