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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2006
... Statistics releases April lending finance data while Record Investments shareholders meet to vote on merger with Allco and competition watchdog chairman Graeme Samuel speaks in Melbourne. NEW YORK - US stocks rebounded in late trading, pulling the Dow ...

A new frontier in asset consulting

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
... alignment of interests in the teams... it has become too expensive for a whole investment team to walk out." And where the competition for mandates was once considered a "beauty parade," Trafford Walker says those days are over as the focus has become ...

Platforms: here today, gone tomorrow

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
... interests in the teams." She added, "it has become too expensive for a whole investment team to walk out." And where the competition for mandates was once considered a "beauty parade," Trafford Walker says those days are over as the focus has become ...

Aussie fund frontrunner for Bank of China $12bn float

... Financial Wisdom as well as on Genesys, Australian Financial Services and Avenue Capital Management. "There's little competition in the market place. We're a China-themed fund but not country specific. We can invest in NASDAQ stocks that do a majority ...

Emerging markets to bounce back after correction

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2006
... to continue, despite a rise last week in US housing rents, and predicted the continuing inflow of cheap goods and competition from China would also ensure US interest rates stay low well into next year. "We'll have a low interest rate environment throughout ...

US fund fees plummet 50 per cent in 25 years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
US mutual fund fees have plummeted 50 per cent in the past 25 years, driven down by market competition and the impact of changing distribution channels. Research just released by the US Investment Company Institute (ICI) reveals that total average fees ...

30 million super accounts and climbing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
Despite super fund consolidation and apparent increasing market competition, Australian superannuation leaders have yet to confront why the number of super fund accounts is still climbing by more than one million each year. According to the just released ...

Labor launches 6-point super plan

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... "opt out". In a bid to make the industry communicate more simply with consumers, Beazley said Labor would toughen competition laws, while to encourage savings, Beazley said Labor would embrace the Howard Government introduced co-contribution scheme and ...

Hewitt eyes investment consulting

... she said the local asset consulting market, currently dominated by a handful of major players, could do with extra competition. "Our view is that there's space in the Australian market for an independent investment consultant," she said, pointing out ...

HOSTPLUS tackles the competition and joins Melbourne Storm

HOSTPLUS has taken a bold step in becoming a major sponsor of the Melbourne Storm National Rugby League team for the next two seasons. HOSTPLUS, the national super fund for the hospitality, tourism, recreation and leisure industries in Australia, joins ...