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Managed accounts central to advisers

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Advisers should be using managed accounts to be adviser, manufacturer and the central figure in their clients' financial lives, attendees were told at yesterday's Financial Standard Managed Accounts forum held in Sydney. Advisers can use managed accounts ...

Foreign shocks sparks IT scrutiny

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Hedge funds and finance industry operators are paying up to 50 per cent more for old legacy disaster recovery management systems, a new technology provider has said. Alphaserve Technologies, a New York-based firm that provides risk management, performance ...

Direct investors dump managed funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Direct share ownership is continuing to rise and it's driving investors out of managed funds, reveals new figures from the latest ASX Share Ownership Survey. The survey found there are 5 million Australians who directly own shares, 2 million more than ...

Charter Hall targets advisers with SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Charter Hall Direct Property has officially launched its property securities fund as a separately managed account (SMA) as well as a managed fund, reflecting adviser appetite for direct portfolios. Reliance Investment Management will manage the portfolio ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Exchange traded fund provider iShares has moved to reassure the market that Australian ETFs are not risky in the wake of warnings from global authorities about transparency and leverage issues. The Financial Stability Board, an international watch-dog ...

Securitor to grow planner network

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Dealer group Securitor is looking to grow its network, while rolling out new initiatives to improve the efficiency of its existing businesses. Securitor, owned by BT Financial Group, currently has close to 500 planners and 240 practices within its network. ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Uh-oh, this is the last day for equity investors to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away". An article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some ...

Asia to grow amid inflation threat: ADB

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Asia will maintain solid expansion for the next two years amid fears of inflation and geopolitical uncertainties, according to a report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). ADB's annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2011 (ADO 2011) ...

Funds to talk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
Superannuation funds could help solve Australia's underinsurance problem if they communicated more with members, AIA Australia's chief executive told the 2011 Life Insurance Conference in Sydney this week. Damien Green, head of the Australian arm of ...

Smaller banks seeking platform independence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
Second tier banks are increasingly looking to sever ties with their larger rivals in favour of independent investment platform providers, according to the chief executive of Melbourne based Powerwrap. Tasmania's MyState Financial has signed a deal with ...