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Manager tenure impacts success: S&P

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
In a study of long-only Australian equity funds, Standard & Poor's found the duration a portfolio manager remains with a fund manager is influential on the success of the fund itself, with consistent returns being a main benefit. In its report 'Portfolio ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... would raise another $US1.5 billion in cash through the sale of a stake in Hospital Corporation of America to the hospital owner-operator itself. Bond prices fell, despite expectations that the Federal Reserve next week could reveal a new policy aimed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... Western Australia's Pilbara region. Fellow miner BHP Billiton rose 73 cents, or two per cent, to $37.63. Department store owner Myer said it expected profit to fall by as much as 10 per cent in the current fiscal year, after more than doubling its full ...

Perpetual outsources central data hub

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
Perpetual has selected a global EDM specialist to run its central data hub to replace its inhouse system. Going live today, Perpetual selected the Cadis enterprise data management (EDM) platform after a two week proof of concept test which assessed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... cents The board of a partially-floated Trade Me Ltd may look outside New Zealand to boost growth, according to the boss of owner Fairfax Media Ltd.

Behaviour key to increased insurance sales

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Behavioural investing can help financial planners increase insurance take up in Australia, as well as improving the reputation of the industry, according to MetLife senior vice president, Joe Jordan. With fierce debate surrounding commissions on life ...

Financial Standard launches iPad app

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Michelle Baltazar, Head of Media & Publisher of Financial Standard. Christopher Page, managing director of Rainmaker Group, owner of Financial Standard, says 2011 marks a concerted push to bring the Financial Standard brand out into the growing financial ...

QIC eyes Asian mandates through new ambassador

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
QIC has appointed former Australian Ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, to help win more mandates from Asian institutional investors. Raby retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade earlier this month after five years as Ambassador to China ...

US housing market needs renovation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
Until the US housing market starts to right itself it's unlikely US consumers are going to gain too much confidence and without confidence the chance of economic recovery will remain a forlorn dream. House prices are still down 32% from their 2006 peak ...

Time-based and opt-in preferred: MSI survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Financial planners need to work on a time-based fees system if they want to make their business clients happy with opt-in also pegged as a "good idea", according to the MSI Global Alliance August survey. The survey, of around 570 Australian business ...