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Boutique's attracting the top talent; van Eyk

Personnel, not just performance is driving the trend towards boutique fund managers, Steven van Eyk says. In a research paper released on Tuesday, van Eyk said there were a number a reasons that explain the rising dominance of small boutique fund managers ...

Aust federal politicians return to Canberra

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2004
Federal politicians return to Canberra today for what could be their last two-week sitting before a federal election. The key issue will be Labor\'s position on the free trade agreement with the United States, with a bitter debate expected at today\'s ...

Trust to offload equity custody business to ANZ

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2004
Financial services group Trust Company of Australia said today it had entered into an agreement with ANZ Banking Group to offload its equity custody business, which would generate a one-off profit of around $2.5 million this financial year. The company ...

Challenger in talks to sell UK properties for $762 mln: Report

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2004
Challenger Financial Services Group is in exclusive talks to sell its British property assets for 295 million pounds ($762 million) in one of Britain\'s biggest commercial property investment deals this year. The Australian newspaper reported that it ...

Aust retail sales pick up in May

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2004
Retail sales picked up in May despite the impact of higher petrol prices, new figures showed today. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said retail sales grew 0.5%, in line with market expectations, to $15.98 billion, after a marginal fall in ...

Homeloans to purchase company authorised as a responsible entity

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2004
Homeloans on Friday announced it had entered into an agreement to purchase a company that would allow it to establish a mortgage trust. The purchase is conditional on the company to be acquired's application to the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Govt's preferred fee disclosure model due this week

Sources have revealed to the Financial Standard, the Government's soon-to-be released preferred fee disclosure model will separate the treatment of product fees from advice fees. Industry sources have revealed that the government, through Treasury ...

Current account deficit up to nearly $12b in March qtr - ABS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2004
Australia's current account deficit worsened again in the first three months of the year, with consumer demand for imported goods outweighing a recovery in farm exports. The deficit increased 2% to just less than $12 billion, from a revised $11.8 billion ...

KPMG Australia separates its corporate recovery team

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2004
KPMG Australia's corporate recovery team is heading out on its own to form an independent insolvency firm. The change will involve nine KPMG partners and about 140 staff with the new company, McGrath Nicol & Partners, to be headed by Tony McGrath as ...

Superannuation fee disclosure remains unresolved; Rainmaker

While industry superannuation funds rightfully claim to have cheaper fee structures than retail funds, Rainmaker Information says the debate should also include addressing what separates fees from costs. Chant West recently published the results of ...