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Small cap oversight costs significant alpha

New research from Inalytics, a company that conducts quantitative analysis on fund manager skill, has found that a fund manager's "unintended bias" against small cap shares is costing investors 65 basis points per month in 2006 or a loss of over seven ...

Praemium integrates market data streaming

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
Praemium has integrated live market trading data into its web-based V-wrap portfolio administration and separately managed account service to create a new desktop system that will be freely available to clients who want to white label the application ...

Compliance pushes SMSFs in new direction

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
Increased compliance burdens for self-managed super funds are fuelling a push into platforms, SMAs and wraps, according to MLC's general platforms manager, Anthony Waldron, and Arthur Naoumidis, managing director of Praemium. "(On) the two-to-three-year ...

Baby boomers not so super informed

Millions of Australians are missing out on the benefits of the new super legislation after a study found that 70 per cent of those who could take advantage of the reforms don't know the new rules exist. Mercer Wealth Solutions conducted a study in March ...

Mortgage brokers bounce back in latest mystery shop

Mortgage and Finance brokers have beaten stereotypes to come up well in a survey of 104 members by the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia, contrasting sharply with a recent CHOICE magazine report criticising the integrity of brokers selling ...

Praemium expands SMA reach into UK with Capita

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
Managed accounts technology provider Praemium, through its UK subsidiary, has signed a deal with Capita to offer separately managed accounts (SMAs) to UK independent financial advisers, wealth managers and financial institutions. SMAs are like super ...

Alternative low-cost retirement funds on rise in US

Employers in the US are turning to unregulated, low-cost investment vehicles called 'collective funds' and regulated 'retirement services' funds to house their staff's pension instead of using traditional managed funds. According to the latest 'industry ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
The National Australia Bank monthly survey of business conditions and business confidence has been released showing a improvement in the conditions measure to a score of 18 which sits just below the record of 18.6 that was achieved in March 2006. Constituent ...

Ageing population challenges require updated IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... are also part of the equation. "We have got to make sure that our focus on medical care is for good sustainable state-of-the-art technology, based in a way which we can afford into the future," said Costello.

Funds address $750m in errors: Deloitte

A comprehensive Deloitte report on unit pricing to be published later this month has found that three out of four investment firms managing unit pricing data have reviewed their policy in response to the regulator's Best Practice Guide released in late ...