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Super $10,000 scholarship up for grabs

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
A $10,000 scholarship is now available from advocacy body, Women in Super, along with the opportunity for the winner to attend a UK global dialogue event as the group promotes female leadership in the super industry. The scholarship from Women in Super ...

Cash sector surges beyond super

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
Nervous investors have been flooding money into the safety of bank deposits since the global financial crisis. This has pushed the deposit sector to a record $1.5 trillion, building a clear lead over the $1.4 trillion superannuation savings pool. Super ...

ASIC opens dialogue with hedge funds

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
Greg Medcraft told the Alternative Investment Association (AIMA) Australian Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney that greater regulatory focus on the hedge fund industry is a post-GFC fact of life, but that it is part of a new dialogue. The new ASIC chairman ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... President Obama's program won't get rolling until next year, so if things recover between now and then the Whitehouse can dial down the spending and still get the political kudos. But needing Congressional approval won't be easy as the jobs program announcement ...

CMC Markets launches new platform

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... built specifically for mobile devices which allows investors to trade on iPads and iPhones. The platform allows investors to dial down the level of leverage in the CFD, to as low as zero. This allows leverage-free access to products like FX, international ...

Customisable, original, scalable, networked: the next advice paradigm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
The next wave of advisory firms will be provide clients with customisable advice that is original, scalable and network connected, say US advice industry researchers. In their paper, The Consumer Revolution - Surviving and Thriving in a Time of Tectonic ...

Resolution Capital opens US office with senior hire

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Resolution Capital has expanded its investment team with the appointment of a senior portfolio manager to be based in New York. Robert Promisel has joined Resolution Capital, a specialised manager of global real estate securities, as a global portfolio ...

Time for super to step up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
Australia's superannuation asset pool has grown to be one of the nation's major macroeconomic advantages and it's time for the sector to take an investment and economic leadership position, said David Whiteley, chief executive of the Industry Super ...

BT Wrap launches new tax and trading tools

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
BT Wrap has launched new tax and trading tools aimed at maximising after-tax investment returns and minimising the work on portfolio management, client reviews and rebalances. Head of BT Wrap, Chris Freeman, said the changes were part of an ongoing ...

Alt assets fund deals with adviser concerns

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
Advance Asset Management wants to erase the bad reputation alternative strategies garnered during the GFC, launching a new fund with liquidity and efficiency to combat all those who got the space 'wrong'. Advance head of advance investment solutions ...