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Target setting works for super funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Target setting can offer rewards for super funds according to new research from bond fund manager PIMCO, which assessed strategies used by not for profit defined benefit and defined contribution default fund options. The research paper, Defined Contribution ...

ASIC clears up infrastructure rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Infrastructure entities and investors now have a clearer understanding of the risks associated with investing in infrastructure after ASIC released new disclosure benchmarks and principles for infrastructure entities today. The Australian Securities ...

FOFA heats up competition for planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Financial planners may be squeezed out of the industry as competition heats up with the impending entry of accountants, stockbrokers and super funds, according to CoreData, with consolidation a likely outcome as smaller practices move to cut costs and ...

SMSFs shift focus to property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
SMSF trustees are slowly embracing property investments for fund investment strategies after the passing of limited recourse borrowing rules, although cash still holds allocation majority. According to information released in the latest Multiport SMSF ...

ASIC warns against security breaches

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Online stockbroking firms have been warned to check their security after ASIC reported a number of account breaches. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has informed online stockbroking firms to urgently review their account ...

FSP reviews group terms, eyes recruits

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Dealer group Financial Services Partners is reviewing its dealer group terms and adviser recruitment processes, with a focus on greater competition and service delivery, to be launched in February. The adviser group has been working on new dealer group ...

BofA: Fund managers appetite for risk growing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Only 3% of global fund managers believe the world economy will be worse off after 2012, according to a BofA Merrill Lynch fund manager survey, although geopolitical risks still rate highly as a concern. In the BofA Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers ...

Global ETP markets earn $151bn in 2011

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
The global exchange-traded product industry hit $1.5 trillion by year end, up 2.9%, with net inflows of $151.9 billion in 2011, according to the latest ETP Landscape report from the BlackRock Investment Institute. The exchange-traded product (ETP) market ...

Life insurance up 11.5% to $10.2bn

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Life insurance risk markets experienced a good year of growth last year, climbing 11.5% from $9.1 billion to $10.2 billion with AIA Australia taking the lion's share, according to Plan For Life data. Plan For Life recorded 11.5% growth for the 12 months ...

Fund managers rate Aust equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
While lack of investor confidence and a preference for risk aversion is an obvious impact of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the Australian share market is also vulnerable to capital flows are having a distortionary impact, according to fund manager ...