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Vanguard arms investors with Plain Talk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Index manager Vanguard joins the growing list of investment companies championing investor financial literacy when it launched a line of educational materials based on their popular Plain Talk Guide format. The guides cover seven different topics including ...

SG Hiscock and Stockland win PIR awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
SG Hiscock & Company and the Stockland Trust Group have taken out the awards for Australia's best property managers at the annual Property Investment Research forum dinner held earlier this week. SG Hiscock & Company received the award for best Property ...

IAS gathers momentum

Managed accounts administrator Investment Administration Services (IAS) announced it had over $1.5 billion in funds under administration (FUA) only two years since launch. "This is a milestone for IAS and achieved from a start up position just over ...

RaboPlus cuts entry fee to 25bp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
RaboPlus, one of the younger entrants to the local managed fund market, is to give investors an early Christmas bonus when it reduced its entry fee by 50 basis points to 0.25 per cent until the end of the year. The fee reduction applies to all funds ...

The worm turns

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
Media mentionitis surrounding channel Nine's controversial worm seems to have stolen the limelight from economic aspects of the election campaign, but the latest PPI figures could turn the spotlight. While tax cut plans and economic debate have been ...

Directors face prison term for lack of disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Two Australian-listed company directors have been slapped with three-year jail terms for using offshore accounts to illegally hide their shareholdings in the business. The prison terms were handed to Stuart Corp and Brian Smith, directors of Corp and ...

Global LPT defies credit gloom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Amid the US sub-prime crisis, the global listed property sector has remained buoyant and continues to grow in Asia, according to ING Clarion. Ritson Ferguson, managing director and chief investment officer at ING Clarion Real Estate Securities said ...

ESG funds pip mainstream

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Funds that systematically factor in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are achieving better returns and grew at twice the rate of their mainstream counterparts, according to a new report. The latest research from Responsible Investment ...

Challenger FP model pays dividends

Eight months after a business restructure, Challenger Financial Planning chief executive Greg Kirk said the group's new business model has worked wonders. Only a couple of years ago Challenger's financial planning business was trailing behind its rivals. ...

Canadian fund slams investment restrictions

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... government studies the issue further. Nobrega said that the Pension Benefits Act had failed to keep up with changes in pension plan governance and investment practices among the leading defined benefit pension plans. "A gap has opened up between legislative ...