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Market Vectors set to launch four Australian equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... mainstream tools for investors. FoFA and MySuper are going to be catalysts for growth with investors demanding greater choice, transparency and ease of trading at a lower cost," Neiron continued. Market Vectors already has a significant presence in the ...

Appetite for overseas assets continues to grow

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... debt have more than doubled in popularity since May. "No investors preferred sovereign debt in May and this is now the choice of 20% of investors who plan to use fixed income. Similarly, emerging market debt has gone from 9% in July to 24% in August ...

CFS adds Tyndall Australian share fund to FirstWrap

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... Zenith. FirstWrap is a full service wrap platform operated by Colonial First State, providing comprehensive investment choice, convenience and great flexibility. As at 30 June 2013, Tyndall AM's investment teams manage approximately A$23 billion in funds ...

Product Dashboard could spook risk-averse members

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... recommendation 4.6, the review said: "It should be mandatory, when referring to past performance of a MySuper product or a choice investment option, to disclose a standardised measure of the uncertainty or volatility associated with the return." However ...

Stronger Super transparency rules too stringent: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... the comprehensive nature of product dashboard requirements, saying it was impractical to publish a dashboard for every Choice option. "This is particularly the case as the vast majority of members who use the lesser known options will have access to ...

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... mills. What happens after Bernanke? Evan Soltas -- a contributing columnist on Bloomberg's 'The Ticker' - thinks it'll be a choice between Larry Summers and Janet Yellen. Not too difficult. President BO (also my initials) only has to choose one or the ...

SelfWealth to distribute through BGL

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... SelfWealth is currently in discussions with prospective traditional and online brokers to select an executing broker of choice and will be looking to have a partnership established in the next few months. SelfWealth is an online investment tool established ...

Deferred annuity tax reforms safeguard retirees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... 2014 because more needs to be done to educate people about the value of these products. There is also currently limited choice in the market. "Australians have been reluctant to commit a high proportion of their retirement savings to the other annuity ...

Active management a 2% tax drag

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... the focus on the impact taxes have on returns. Parametric says that while active management continues to be the weapon of choice of the majority of institutional and retail investors, a retirement strategy based on holding index funds over the very long-term ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... has plenty of room still to apply conventional monetary policy accommodation. The Fed, on the other hand, have no other choice but continue to destroy its balance sheet. And unemployment? Yes, Australia has less of it than America. And it may not be ...