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New ETFs hit booming market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... presentation yesterday to mark the launch of three new ETFs, Vanguard said there had been a 70 per cent increase in the uptake of ETFs each year for the last three years in Australia, with a total of 47,603 investors as of December 2010. Globally there ...

Planners wrapped with super app

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... keeping up with legislative and regulatory changes and the next thing super have done is online tools, but we have seen a big uptake as funds begin to appreciate apps." Other soon-to-be launched apps such as an insurance-needs calculator will target ...

Risk advisers embrace social media

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... medium with just 8.6 per cent of life insurers using it. Brisbanites were the most likely to tweet, with an 11 per cent uptake, the poll found. The iPad proved a hit with survey results suggesting two in five of the respondents planned to buy one within ...

More choice for Westpac Online investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... be linked to their online trading account," said James Staltari, head of Westpac Online Investing. Reflected in customer uptake of Westpac Online's latest upgrades, investors are showing greater interest in equity markets leading to anticipation of strong ...

AMP to launch Singapore direct property arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... will respond to investor demand for traditional property that provides yield with capital growth by increasing property uptake from 2 to 3 per cent to 5 to10 per cent. AMP Capital already has interests in the Singapore property market with $860 million ...

Clouds gather in financial services

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... consulting engagements across our superannuation, administrators, banking and general finance client base to increase the uptake of cloud computing solutions by 50 per cent," he added. Last month Telstra signed a three-year partnership deal with IT services ...

Insurance shows industry divide

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... financial planners, reported that 43.5 per cent of respondents believed that price sensitivity is a major deterrent to trauma uptake, reporting that an improvement in the price of insurance "would be likely to increase trauma uptake amongst consumers" ...

Investors demand 'transactional' advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... said. Harrington believes this "bolt on-bolt off" type of advice model will be more in demand, re-inforced by the mass uptake of intra-fund advice where super funds give advice specific to super. "For the financial planning industry, that's really where ...

Planners must follow insto go signal

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... appetite, as they hold the key to understanding financial asset price movements. And right now, the major trend is the uptake of equities over cash and bonds, he said at the 2010 Asgard Investor Forum earlier this week. "For the first time in over four ...

Aussie equities get clean bill of health

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... healthy balance sheets and improving profitability of corporate Australia, retail investors are "relatively slow" on the uptake. "The retail market has been relatively slow, investor confidence has been shaken over the last two or three years," said ...