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Niche and insto licensees to rule by 2020

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... Medium-sized financial planning licensees will be the first to fall by the wayside as the sector restructures over the coming decade, according to a panel of advice experts speaking at the AFA national conference. The new market leaders will be both ...

Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
Australian shares were in positive territory at noon but had shed modest gains within hours of the open, as investors remained nervous ahead of a crucial vote on the next European bailout for debt-laden Greece. IG Markets' dealer Chris Weston said the ...

Cash sector surges beyond super

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... per annum 10-year result reported by Rainmaker and follows super funds moving away from their high equity focus. While a decade ago they had 58% invested into both local and overseas shares, by June this year that weighting had dropped to 51%. The beneficiary ...

Harvard defies critics with 21% return

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... alternatives, HMC said the strategy had delivered to the Harvard Endowment Fund an additional $15 billion over the past decade, compared to what would have been achieved if they used traditional investment models. This extra income has been crucial to ...

Boost for corporate sector as Stronger Super details emerge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... incorrect information being provided to funds. The SuperStream working group, which hopes to save $20 billion over the next decade by streamlining back office work in super, plans to have the proposed contributions and rollovers data standards available ...

Mercer adds to global infrastructure team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... infrastructure team. Toby Buscombe will join Mercer's global infrastructure investment team later this year after more than a decade with Access Capital Advisers, most recently as a partner leading access' European infrastructure group. Buscombe has ...

Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Australia's housing market continues to confound, not because it's expensive in world terms but because of the disconnect between people naively hoping for price reductions and everybody else complaining we aren't building them fast enough. The latest ...

ACSI: executive salaries soar above share value

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... of Top 100 companies than investors given the annual cash take of a CEO from a large company has almost doubled over the decade," said Ann Byrne, chief executive, ACSI. "This is of major concern as paying CEOs cash bonuses and high cash salaries protects ...

Mercer plans for post FOFA advice dominance

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... its sights firmly set on the Australian financial advice industry, with plans to become a dominant player within the next decade. In its target of the retail market, Mercer will introduce new tools for advisers, including a test of whether an advice ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... inventions, new businesses and then exports. According to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, during the past decade there were 6.1 million patents registered and 4.7 million of them or 77% came from the leading nations of Japan, the US, South ...