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William Blair ramps up bid to win super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... strengths was that it did not aim to be all things to all investors. "We're not an investment supermarket that tries to tick every box. We're very focused, even before you get down to the investment strategy," he said. Head of Global Distribution Daniel ...

Prime real estate no longer attractive: LaSalle

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
With the upside from prime commercial real estate looking decidedly limited, investors need to widen the net if they want capital growth from their property portfolio, according to LaSalle's Paul Guest. Global risk aversion since the onset of the financial ...

Give super fund directors more time: Gonski

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... says that directors' performance should be evaluated every year by an independent body. "Too many appraisals end up being box-ticking exercises," he said. He adds that superannuation funds should be headed by a non-executive chairman along a firm committee ...

Certitude to access Threadneedle global income fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
Certitude Global Investments has launched a new equity offering to the Australian market which derives its returns from a portfolio of dividend paying companies worldwide. The new Australian registered scheme will be called the Threadneedle Global Equity ...

34 months prison for ex- GuardianFP adviser

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... identified. Heathwood arranged insurance for the clients, who had never asked for any to be set up, using her post office box and mobile phone number, or a mobile number that her son and daughter has previously used, ASIC said. In an attempted cover ...

Russell ups risk in equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
Russell Investments has dumped five defensive stocks in its latest rebalance of its value index, anticipating growth in riskier assets. Russell reconstitutes the weightings to stocks in its Russell Australia High Value and Australia High Dividend indices ...

Upside from frontier markets untapped: Feriani

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
When the tide turns on an economic climate that cultivates negativity, a lot more investment will find its way to a basket of frontier markets currently overlooked by emerging market index providers. That's the view of Dr Slim Feriani, chief executive ...

Volatility breeds opportunism: Report

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
Conventional investment wisdom has been sidelined by continued market volatility, said a study commissioned by Principal Global Investors. As a result, the report, undertaken by CREATE-Research, said new ways of investing and managing assets through ...

SMSF auditor competency education push

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... contraventions of the superannuation law," he said. Audit quality in the SMSF sector and fears a commoditised low cost tick-box approach is emerging at some ends of the market has forced increasing requirements for 'gatekeepers', concerns which were ...

A surplus in 2012/13, and then what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... He has to make good on his promise to get the budget into surplus come hell or high water - or it'll be another tick on the box of the lost of Labor's broken promises. "The reality is that we will need to cut and cancel existing programs if we are to ...