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Labor unveils plan to export financial services

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
Kevin Rudd, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security, won a lot of votes from a hardened crowd at yesterday's annual Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) conference by unveiling a plan to rebuild Australia's ...

Navigator adds lucky seven

In response to adviser demand for a broader range of managed funds to choose from, platform group Navigator has added not one but seven new funds into its fund list this month. The funds are Basis Australia-Rim Opportunity, Basis Yield, INVESCO Wholesale ...

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Good returns and good luck

Using research compiled by Morningstar as evidence, Vanguard Investments claims that most active fund managers cannot sustain above index-benchmarked performance over the long term. Anthony Serhan, head of consulting for Morningstar, described how their ...

Economic slow down on the agenda: Access Economics

Economic forecaster Access Economics expects a slow down of the economy into 2006 and 2007, in spite of Australia's current minerals boom. Speaking at the AXA Style Summit in Sydney, Access economics director Chris Richardson highlighted a range of ...

Third time lucky as Lend Lease, GPT agree on merger

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2004
General Property Trust and Lend Lease Corporation on Friday agreed on a planned merger after the trust\'s external manager addressed sticking points which had left the deal in limbo for almost two weeks. Lend Lease agreed to effectively return a $3.4 ...

Fund outperformance as much luck as skill: Morningstar

New research by Morningstar has found that fund outperformance has as much to do with luck, as it has to do with a manager exercising any degree of skill. The study, commissioned by Vanguard Investments, used Morningstar data to look for funds that ...

AMP stock jumps 30 per cent in September quarter

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
... takeover which would boost the shares, or a capital raising which could cause them to fall. "There was certainly an element of luck involved in managers' positioning in AMP as uncertainty was high," Dr Lundy said. "We place less importance on whether ...

Morningstar's study on fund manager performance and characteristics

Morningstar has said that top-performing retail share funds for one year are not usually going to be those of the next, according to a new study published by the ratings house and commissioned by Vanguard Investments Australia. "The study show clearly ...

Breakspear to leave FPA to pursue different path

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has today announced that its chief executive Ken Breakspear, having completed his contract, would leave the organisation on 3 October 2003 after a career spanning 15 years to pursue a new direction. ...