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Shift ad budget for Gen Y: Williams

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... demographics such as the 'baby boomers'. "Boomers are certainly coming online, once they get comfortable with the technology their uptake in use is exponential," she said. However, Williams stressed the need to get the message right. "If boomers and ...

BGI targets adviser iShare apathy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... platforms, overall, are not well equipped to provide direct share trading, which could go someway to explaining the lacklustre uptake of ETFs. "Typically the dealer groups from a software perspective they've been awfully good at managed funds but awfully ...

Online insurance lost in cyberspace

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... up to ten per cent more than buying them through conventional means - but the online revolution seems to be slow on the uptake, a new survey shows. According to a recent Allianz poll, only 32 per cent of Australians aged 18 years and over expect buying ...

Buy side problems FIX'd

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008

AXA Rosenberg eyes emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... ability to generate alpha by measuring its efficiency, earnings forecasts and broker recommendations. He said he expected the uptake for the emerging market product to be positive because Australian institutions understood the investment strategy and ...

Insurance that gives and gives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... "We're off to a good start in terms of applications going coming in. We've already pledged $2 million to the charities so uptake has been good, the people we've spoken to click with it quickly," he said.

The unpopular outperformer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... Hiscock said. Although the fund is available to wholesale investors with a minimum initial investment amount of $100,000, uptake has been slow. "It's been pretty good but we have been surprised, it's just three years old and it's consistently been in ...

Fin planning uptake doubles

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... commissioned Nielsen to survey over 700 consumers and 300 financial advisers in June and July regarding consumer perception and uptake of financial advice. According to the survey, only 17 per cent invested all of their total investments (excluding property) ...

AustralianSuper presents pension made easy

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... in-house account-based pension for its 160,000 eligible members. Chief executive, Ian Silk, said he was expecting a strong uptake from eligible members with the pension being made available from January 2008. "With over 160,000 members currently eligible ...

Perpetual launches structured cap-protection fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
... Perpetual, which resulted in some 95 per cent of investors utilising the 100 per cent loan facility," Crowley said. High uptake on the loan facility demonstrates gearing is a primary driver behind the popularity of growth-related capital protected products ...