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Product-based fees create conflict

Financial planners will not be recognised as true professionals for as long as 'product-based' remuneration models exist, according to discussion papers released by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA). The Institute has used an ...

EISS offloads direct property

... redirect the proceeds into global listed and unlisted property trusts. The group has sold Macquarie Tower in Parramatta to Investa Diversified Office Fund for $65 million and other properties to BlackRock Investment Management for a total of $160 million. ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
Standard and Poor's has launched three new Shariah law-compliant indices, targeting infrastructure, healthcare and large-midcap stocks. The three indices are the S&P Global Infrastructure Shariah, S&P Global Healthcare Shariah, and S&P/IFCI Large-MidCap ...

Fin planning uptake doubles

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
The number of people who fully follow their planner's advice have doubled compared to last year but the industry still has a long way to go, according to a new survey. ING Australia commissioned Nielsen to survey over 700 consumers and 300 financial ...

Power to the under-40s

Chris Browne, a Victorian-based financial planner who won this year's AFA Rising Star of the Year Award, said there is more to the under-40s segment of the market than meets the eye. Browne was a business development manager at MLC before he decided ...

Microcap a winning formula at Cygnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
A fund manager who returned 73 per cent p.a. after fees for his clients last year is to manage a new fund that focuses on microcap stocks. Jonathan Rosham, co-founder of microcap specialist Cygnet Capital, will run Cygnet Microcap opportunity fund using ...

Australia is Asia's biggest investment market

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2007
As Australia re-launches its financial services export drive, it's worth reminding ourselves where we sit in the world's pecking order. With this in mind, the latest Benchmark Report from InvestAustralia makes for very encouraging reading notwithstanding ...

DIY funds get legal warrant access

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2007
The Senate has ended years of fluctuating policy and regulatory decisions by passing legislation to allow the use of instalment warrants for self managed super funds (SMSFs). While the legislation still requires Royal Ascent, this is generally seen ...

MAB in hiring spree

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
... expected to align with MAB's continuing international expansion. Toli Prantzos has also joined MAB as an asset manager from Investa Property Group, while Kata Volarevic joins as a compliance and funds administration officer from AXA, and John Ryan joins ...

Local investors still call Australia home

Australians are resisting the pull of emerging markets around the world after a new study found that 8 out of 10 domestic investors still hold Australian shares in their portfolio and the same number prefer to invest here than offshore. The findings ...