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ETF assets to surpass hedge funds in 12-18 months

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... markets suggests that they could leapfrog ahead of Europe in the future." "In Australia, the ETF market still has a lot of room for growth. Given ETFs are often marketed as lower cost investment options to active management, it will be interesting to ...

Advisers should train to fight tax evasion: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... that falls within the review of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act (AML/CTF) 2006. "There is room for education and training for advisers on tax evasion and this needs to be done by AUSTRAC," De Gori said. "AUSTRAC was giving ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... (prices higher). "Weaker-than-expected price data reinforced expectations that inflation was subdued, which could give room for the Fed to delay tapering." At 0830 AEDT on Monday, the March 2014 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 95.725 (implying ...

Advisers still servicing few wealthy clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... $160,000 use a financial adviser, compared with only 10% of those on lower incomes. "These figures show that there is still room for opportunity," BlackRock managing director Mark Oliver told Financial Standard. "New developments such as scaled advice ...

AustralianSuper CEO justifies The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... self-managed super sector. Sloan's comments highlight latent tensions between the retail and industry sectors. But Silk left no room for doubt in his answer to this charge. "The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. If [ The New Daily ] becomes ...

LUCRF Super joins global calls to improve worker safety

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... labour standards and human rights policies of Australia's top 200 companies. The results found that there was significant room for companies to improve the robustness of their policies.

Boutiques squeezed out by increasing compliance costs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... firms who do not have the benefit of scale to dilute upgrade costs across the business. "There is a legitimate fear that room for the boutique asset manager is shrinking. More than two-thirds of respondents to our recent survey of 202 asset managers ...

Super funds need more women in senior roles: WIS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... Cate Wood said that, while super did a better job of promoting women than many industries, there was still plenty of room for improvement. "As major institutional investors, super funds are in a position to put pressure on other businesses to improve ...

ASIC far too slow to act on misconduct: Senator

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... Committee will be conducting the inquiry and its objective is "to see ASIC doing a better job" because "there is plenty of room for ASIC to improve," Williams said. "I have no doubt that there will be plenty of submissions and complaints about ASIC's ...

Challenger stages lifetime annuities comeback

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... "Structural demand drivers have kept us committed to developing the lifetime annuity market in Australia. There's clearly room for wealth managers willing to invest shareholder capital to protect customers from the risks of retirement," Benari said. ...