Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 211 - 220 of 287 results for "Researchers"

Xplan tops software ratings

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... from an investment platform, which allows adviser to manage their productivity. Indeed, this year, Investment Trends researchers found financial planning technology firms had focussed on ensuring planners can work more efficiently and also measure their ...

Towers Watson researcher returns to Aus

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Towers Watson has welcomed back one of its previous researchers, Ben Griffiths, to its Australian investment team. Griffith spent nearly three years at Towers Watson's UK investment business. This move brings the total number of manager researchers ...

Citi and GSJBW win ESG awards

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... JBWere, Macquarie, Merrill Lynch and UBS. "When we founded ESG Research Australia in March last year there were only two researchers consistently producing high quality ESG research in Australia. Despite the challenges presented by the global financial ...

APRA launches data revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... released its fund level returns data and in the process launched a revolution in the extent of data now available for researchers investigating superannuation. Data now available includes, for each fund, details of what they provide to the regulator ...

ISN to APRA: get on with it

... publishing their data 'first' rather than have accurate figures." Keevers said while there can be a de facto race between researchers to release performance data, funds have also dramatically sped up how they deliver their information. "Five years ago ...

Flawed fund analysis demands new metric: Study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... presenting their paper Investment Performance Ranking of Superannuation Firms to the Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers this week. Sy and Lui argue that an alternative approach is to analyse the overall effect of all investments offered by superannuation ...

T. Rowe Price to grow retail presence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... highest [global equities] rating across insto and retail," said Brewer, noting the group's top recommendation from researchers Van Eyk and Lonsec. And while the fund's global equities strategy underperformed compared to its peers last year, its long ...

Countdown to CIMA scholarships: IMCA

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... recognised and provides participants with a broad understanding of the issues facing 'client facing' investment managers, researchers and consultants. "The program provides essential theoretical and practical grounding for investment researchers and ...

Future still belongs to super

... fundamental re-evaluation of its investment principles and how it presents itself to the electorate. In contrast to other researchers, both Rainmaker and Deloitte project considerable upside for self-managed super funds (SMSF). Rainmaker said SMSF are ...

RiskMetrics buys Innovest

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... companies' performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. This acquisition means more than 50 ESG researchers will be added to RiskMetrics' business. "Innovest is one of the few firm's that has successfully taken a quantitative approach ...