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Attitude determines financial altitude: Plum

Forget financial literacy. Leading superannuation advice specialist Plum found that attitudes to money are more critical than financial education when trying to get the message across. Plum's senior education development consultant, Michelle Brown ...

New Jersey Govt spends teachers' future fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
The New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund seemed in dire trouble last week as it was revealed funds destined for retirement funding had been diverted to cover more immediate expenditure, in a theme echoing some of the recent debate around Australia's ...

Fincorp failure burns 8,000 investors

Around 8,000 investors will either lose all their money or get back 30Ac in the dollar following the collapse of property group Fincorp. KordaMentha, the insolvency administrator appointed to the case, said that preliminary figures showed that about ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
The much awaited Reserve Bank of Australia announcement of interest rates was made this morning after their monthly meeting yesterday. The RBA decided not to raise the cash rate from 6.25 per cent. This will cause the weight of opinion for an interest ...

Hedge fund myths confuse investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
When you hear about hedge funds, they are either heroes or villains, while a lot of myths about hedge funds leads to too much confusion among investors, said hedge fund of funds manager EACM Advisors. One of the myths is they are unregulated and somehow ...

Meridien and AMP Capital Investors form $1bn team

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
Meridien and AMP Capital Investors have joined forces to create a $1 billion retirement asset and management company, AMP Capital Meridien Lifestyle. The new venture is responsible for more than $1 billion in retirement assets, including 19 retirement ...

Investment reporting methods must be equitable: JPM WSS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
When thinking about how best to manage their investment reporting, super funds should be focusing upon how transparent, equitable, portable and robust the approach is, rather than just whether they should adopt unit pricing or stay with crediting rates. ...

Equity lenders prepare to take on reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
Shared equity lenders are preparing for a turf war with reverse mortgage lenders for the retiree equity release market. The first non-government shared equity loan, Rismark's equity finance mortgage, is being marketed at this stage to first home buyers ...

Fund manager transparency getting worse

Fund managers are getting so sophisticated with their PR that there's more spin than substance to the raft of information they churn out today compared with a decade ago. Angela Ashton, head of research at IWL, said that it's gotten so bad fund managers ...

Managed funds count carbon emission costs

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
While many investors and companies await the results of the Federal Government's task group set up to investigate the potential effects of introducing a carbon trading scheme, some investment managers are taking the initiative and developing models ...