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Advisers open doors to $50k clients

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Advisers are willing to take on clients with funds as little as $50,000 in a bid to win new business amidst tough market conditions, new research shows. A new survey by Nielson, commissioned by ING Australia, noted that an increasing number of advisers ...

New turbo charged adviser account

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... provides a consolidated reporting tool that saves advisers time. Advisers also gain access to automatic crediting of dividends via the E*TRADE platform and funds through ANZ channels. "Previously advisers using E*TRADE's services could only access their ...

AustralianSuper sticks with securities lending

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... however that any securities lending is not handled by the fund itself because "AustralianSuper is involved in securities lending via mandates with the various investment managers - including hedge funds - that invest the AustralianSuper portfolio." AustralianSuper ...

NAB Super divests direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... its exposure to property assets would be maintained at current benchmark levels through unlisted property trusts. "Investing via unlisted property trusts diversifies the exposure of the fund's property assets across all commercial sectors (office, retail ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... exposure to commodities using futures markets. "Research has shown that a long term risk premium can be accessed in commodities via the futures market," he said. "Commodity futures allow producers of commodities to obtain a known future price for the ...

Finance recruiters keen for more

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... industry is hungry for new blood - spurring some of the biggest names in the industry to embark on a serious recruitment hunt via Kaplan Professional's Financial Services Careers Week. Kaplan officially unveilled its Careers Week yesterday which will ...

CalPERS unveils infrastructure plan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... strategy will see CalPERS significantly beef up its current $461 million investment in infrastructure related investments held via private equity and real estate. "Infrastructure was the last component of a new asset class to be approved by the CalPERS ...

ESG assets made clear: JPMorgan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... Australian fund managers and super funds worried about the principles governing their investments can now siphon "unethical" assets via JPMorgan's ESG-friendly screen. Unveiled three months ago in Europe, JPMorgan has developed a post-trade environmental ...

Fund call centres the weakest link

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... Korchinski, chief executive of CitiStreet Australia. The key issue with traditional call centres is that they measure 'success' via management driven productivity and efficiency metrics - such as answering a call within 20 seconds or mentioning a customer's ...

Philippines axes cheques for ATMs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... eCrediting of survivorship pension in light of numerous requests from survivorship pensioners for their benefits to be sent via ATM instead of the old cheques disbursement system which takes days to encash," said a GSIS statement. In addition to its ...