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Lessons learned from Opes Prime

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... Inquiry's committee agreed that AMSLA (Australian Master Securities Lending Agreement) was not suitable for many individual investors, particularly less savvy mum and dad investors, who signed up with Opes Prime. But it stopped short of recommending ...

Agribusiness MIS suffer 77pc drop

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... and market conditions," Lee said. But the MIS sector was not just hit on the inflows side - the number of individual investors in agribusiness projects plummeted 69 per cent. There were just 7,650 investors last year, compared to the prior year's 24,300 ...

ETFs won't phase out index funds: Bowerman

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... want to buy from the ASX. We don't like managed fund structures'," he said. "ETFs open up a new market for individual investors. There are groups of advisers that are brokerage based and because of their business structure wouldn't use Vanguard index ...

UK fundies say worst is over

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... which 71 per cent say they believe stocks and shares will be the clear returns winner in the coming months. "Individual investors might be encouraged by the fact that the UK's fund management professionals - many of whom manage phenomenal amounts of ...

ATO targets loss schemes

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... the Index since June 2008. The ATO has seen attempts by promoters to sell interests in MISs to groups of individual investors on the basis that they will be 'partners' and will be able to claim upfront deductions for their interests in the product. Investors ...

CBA launches capital protection funds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... Commonwealth Bank's Capital Series Compass offering is open from 11 May until 19 June 2009 and is available to individual investors, companies, trusts and Self Managed Super Funds.

Vanguard launches ETFs in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... exchange-traded funds representing more than US$650 billion in assets now available to institutional and individual investors. Five of the 10 most actively traded United States equities are ETFs. Vanguard's head of retail, Robin Bowerman, said that while ...

BGI appoints CIO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... the fund manager has $38.9 billion in funds under management as at 30 September 2008. BGI's clients include individual investors, government and corporate superannuation funds, financial institutions, foundations, endowments and unions.

Back to basics for property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... investment mix allows access to a range of domestic and international assets that may not be available to many individual investors," he said. Although the product seems to fit the bill for retail investors hoping for a return ride on the property wagon ...

CILSLB reappoints MLCIC

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... of, the construction industry in Australia," said Ireland. MLC manages more than $102 billion on behalf of individual investors and corporate customers. The fund manager has over 100 institutional clients including superannuation funds, insurance companies ...