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CFS platforms gain $1.9bn net flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... First State's underlying profit after tax increased by 22 per cent on the prior comparative period to $61 million. First Choice retained the number two flagship platform position with more than 10 per cent of the market share. Meanwhile, Colonial First ...

More funds adopt intra-fund advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... at Plum. "We will have a strong focus around addressing adequacy... helping people make the right decision on investment choice...contribution and insurance levels," said Woodall. The graduated advice model allows members to tap both intra-fund and full-advice ...

Add some sugar, then blend

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... potentially improve a client's investment outcomes," he said. Using the tools, advisers can select any blend of funds of their choice and the program will come up with the monthly excess returns graph and the risk/net return profile of the selected portfolio ...

US firm launches religious ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... tobacco, pornography, weaponry and other specific issues. In addition to providing religious investors with more investment choice, FaithShares is giving a minimum 10 per cent of its net income to a ministry associated with one of the religious denom ...

AXA adds 20 funds to APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... approved product list (APL), including those from Aberdeen, Barclays Global Investors and Magellan, to provide a wider choice of index and income funds to financial planners. The AXA APL includes 51 fund managers across 385 products. Recently added to ...

Mahogany enters voluntary administration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... awarded costs again Lehman Brothers Special Financing by the UK Court of Appeal on 6 November. Mahogany claims it had "no choice but to enter voluntary administration in order to avoid insolvency in 2010". PPB has advised that it will be investigating ...

Universal model tough to execute

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... investment strategy, according to yesterday's Cooper report - but problems will arise from asset class, transition and choice limitations, argues one expert. Phase one of the preliminary Cooper report suggests a choice architecture structure for super ...

Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... chief executive Pauline Vamos said that the Cooper Review should consider the impact on super fund members when exercising choice-of-fund. At present, there is no industry standard on how fund members can compare the different options based on risk. ...

Brand survey highlights top banks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... increase and the release of the 'banana video' to their customers justifying the move. Christopher Zinn, media spokesperson at CHOICE, said satisfaction surveys only tell part of the story. "There's a lot of satisfaction surveys and the banks are really ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
Australian trustees looking to slash fees should have a good look at the US public sector quasi-industry fund, the Thrift Savings Plan, that uses Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) to deliver total fees of just 0.15 per cent. Thrift is a US pension fund used ...