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LICs versus ETFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
The issue of LICs and their younger cousin ETFs has risen yet again with a new Russell Investment report comparing the two investment vehicles, urging planners to look into ETFs as a new investment option. The benefits of such options include no entry ...

DTCIM selects Imagine software

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
DTC Investment Management (DTCIM) signs on to Imagine Software's Derivatives.com ASP service, joining Credit Suisse, Commonwealth Bank and Wachovia as the software group's growing list of financial services clients. Imagine's products features, among ...

Titanium challenges rating

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Camden-based fund manager Titanium Asset Management said S&P fund services' research on one of the group's funds contain "major inaccuracies", and has requested S&P to withdraw its 'sell' rating on it. S&P Fund services assigned a "sell" rating on the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
The Australian stock market was higher at noon, led by strength across banking and finance stocks. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 40.8 points, or 0.9 per cent, at 4,578 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 39.6 ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
What the? The past three straight trading days on 'The Street' provided a perfect specimen of investors' one data point to the next data point existence. Day 1. Overall US non-farm payrolls fell by less than expected in August. Private sector jobs increased ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open firmer on Thursday after Wall Street and European bourses closed higher. At 0743 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 30 points higher at 4,568 points, with ...

Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super join top 300

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Fifteen of the world's top 300 pension and sovereign wealth funds are domiciled in Australia, according to a new report. That represents an increase of three on last year, with Super SA, GESB, and Telstra Super joining the global elite. The Future Fund ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Dealer group Synchron's training conference next month for its financial advisers will be run entirely on an iPad, setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. Some 50 financial advisers who are attending the group's Next Generation Training ...

AIST research exposes flaws in asset-based fee model

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
There are significant weaknesses in the concept of asset-based fees as a means of remuneration for fund managers, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) in conjunction with actuary RiceWarner. The asset ...

Kittel to head BankSA

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
The Westpac Group have appointed South Australian Jane Kittel as managing director of BankSA, taking over Rob Chapman who will become chief executive at St. George. Kittel will take over from present managing director Chapman from October 1. Kittel ...