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DFA funds "holy grail" research on Aussie equities

One of the leading passive fund managers in the world, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has funded an Australian-based research to find the "holy grail" model of evaluating Australian equities. UQ Business School's head Professor Tim Brailsford, Monash ...

Jury still out on community banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... as their contribution to profit jumped 30 per cent last year. The results suggest that rather than being a banking revolution, community banking is simply a low-key distribution strategy. But as wealth managers found long ago, distribution is only useful ...

Simpler super will promote savings: Dutton

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
Simplifying our superannuation system, and keeping it simple, will make it easier for people to engage with their super, boosting confidence and promoting savings. Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton, speaking at yesterday's Association of Superannuation ...

Committed to Asia: Fidelity

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2006
... Korean security for Pacific Council, Mike Chinoy, admitted that China is struggling to manage its social and economic revolution, but he said, "China hasn't collapsed - it is booming." "By all means take that ride, but fasten your seatbelts," he caut ...

ME-IFS merger just the end of the beginning: Weaven

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... super, the benefits were really only used in retirement by perhaps 5 per cent of people. But industry funds led to the revolution, he said, that changed all that. "We have to remember what super was. It used to be an employer-controlled HR tool, and ...

Foreign banks lag locals, but for how long?

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2006
Despite deregulation of the banking system and foreign banks moving into Australia, local banks still have a mortgage over the banking industry. APRA has just released a quarterly snapshot of the financial performance of all banks that reveals that ...

We will revolutionise multi-mgt through absolute returns: MLC

MLC's Chris Condon predicts that by applying their multi-manager approach to their new absolute return long term fund they will once again revolutionise the multi manager market. MLC's newly launched long-term absolute return (LTAR) fund proclaims itself ...

Plastic debt to reach $48 billion

... foreign entry from the likes of GE and increased competition from regional and niche players kick-started a strategic revolution - one of the largest manifestations of which has been the zero per cent balance transfer," said Alan Shields, Datamonitor's ...

SMS technology paving the way

Technology is continuing its push into how we handle transactions and its only a matter of time before wealth management service providers follow suit. Though yet to revolutionise how investors or super fund members are kept informed of transaction ...

New buy and sell site for adviser practices

Financial planners will now have access to a new website which offers the opportunity to buy and sell practices or find new employment. Practice Point will offer financial planning practitioners the opportunity to offer or seek partnerships, sell our ...