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Asset consultants "useless": Oxford University study

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... recommendations. "We find no evidence that consultants' recommendations add value," the study concluded. However, researchers suggested that institutional investors used asset consultants to provide "a 'narrative' to explain their actions, which provide ...

Fund managers mislead researchers on reasons for staff turnover

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Senior management teams at some investment managers are deliberately misleading research houses about reasons for staff turnover in a bid to preserve their ratings, according to ProCapital managing director Dr Jerome Lander. The manager selection expert ...

New $9 million super research facility opens

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... addressing two key themes - "Superannuation and the Economy" and "Australians Over 60" - the cluster will bring together researchers from Monash and Griffith Universities, the University of Western Australia and the University of Warwick in the UK. The ...

Study shows dark pools benefit markets at low volumes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... findings follow concerns from some traders that dark pools threaten the fairness of price discovery and market liquidity. Researchers analysed dark trading within the Canadian market before and after the introduction of minimum price improvement rules ...

Retail managed funds' fortune set to slide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... this growth is likely to be undone by a poor June quarter, according to figures released by Plan For Life Actuaries & Researchers. Overall retail managed funds grew by $24 billion in the first quarter of 2013, with AMP growing at the fastest rate, followed ...

Study finds dark pools damage market quality

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... discovery and market quality in the US, according to new research by Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC). Researchers from the Australian independent academic centre for capital market research looked at off-exchange trading venues - ...

ISN calls for electronic auctions to block HFT leakage

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013

Managed funds survive ETF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... substitute away from other investment products, including managed funds," Beta Shares managing director Alex Vynokur said. Researchers also expect ETFs to continue strong growth and to reach 79,000 investors by the end of 2013. However, the use of ETF ...

NFP directors not engaged in fundraising

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... becoming increasingly competitive and requires the involvement of the board and CEO," he said. The study, carried out by researchers at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at the Queensland University of Technology, found that ...

Women don't trust financial advisers: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... spend more time building trust and knowing what women want before trying to sell them anything," Russell said. The researchers are now preparing a questionnaire based on the preliminary findings. Over the next months, they expect to interview 1,000 women ...