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Fidelity launches new mid-small cap Australian equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... across the cycle. "We have been managing the Fidelity Australian Equities Fund with above benchmark performance for the past decade. James has been an integral member of the Australian Equities team during this time and we are confident this strategy ...

Facebook usage in Australia going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... years. But in a sign of things to come, 57% of people aged 50-64 years used social media, meaning that within the next decade the proportion of retirees using social media is expected to skyrocket. Facebook is nonetheless the preferred platform with ...

Giant firms hold sway in infrastructure investment industry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... capital raised in the last 10 years accounted for 45% of the total raised by closed-ended infrastructure funds in the last decade, according to alternatives researcher Preqin. In its July edition of Infrastructure Spotlight, a regular report on trends ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... occurs, the surge in mining investment will deliver a large and sustained increase in the volume of exports over the coming decade. He acknowledged that success in what the government has dubbed the 'Asian Century' cannot rely on unfettered growth in ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... short-term volatility in the growth rate of the world's second largest economy. "China has grown at upwards of 10% for the last decade. There has to be a correction at some point but the concern is that this correction will lead to turbulence. So far ...

Former Macquarie exec to head up EFIC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... New South Wales Government. "The Board would like to thank Angus for his significant contribution to EFIC. Over the past decade, EFIC has signed facilities totalling more than $5 billion, supporting over $22 billion of Australian exports to 65 countries ...

IOOF appoints BDM to AET

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Australian Executor Trustees (AET), part of the IOOF group, has appointed Mark Tisdell as its new business development manager for NSW. He will be responsible for the sale and distribution of AET's Small APRA Fund and SMSF solutions. In a career in ...

Financial planners opt for software homogeneity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... relationships, are based on a survey of 1,141 financial planners. "The planning software market has completely morphed over the past decade," said Investment Trends senior analyst Recep Peker. "Where VisiPlan used to dominate, and Microsoft Excel was ...

Fund chief calls for cap on super lump sum payments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees End of Year Breakfast in Sydney this morning, Turner said: "Over the next decade we can expect four million Australians to retire, and we're going forward into an environment where there's less and less ...

Former ING DIRECT BDM joins EBX

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
Former ING DIRECT national business development manager Carolan Ibbotson has joined Endowment Bond Exchange (EBX) as senior business development manager. Ibbotson will manage the marketing of Endowment Bond Exchange to advisory practices in Queensland ...