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Retail fund FUM drops $12bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Funds under management (FUM) across the retail managed funds sector dropped almost $12 billion to $532 billion during the June quarter, with Australian Wealth Management (AWM), BT Financial Group and NAB/MLC posting the biggest losses. The Plan for ...

Agribusiness needs careful planning

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... - buy a business where you've got pricing power," he said. Meanwhile Count Financial's chief investment officer, Michael Spurr, said the firm did not generally recommend agribusiness investments to all clients as they tended to be long term investment ...

Mercer Wealth on adviser recruitment spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
Huge volumes of financial advice-related phone calls, numbering more than 1,500 a day, spurred Mercer Wealth Solutions (Mercer) to expand its planning network to include self-employed financial advisers. David Anderson, Mercer outsourcing business leader ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... on a volume of 13,520 contracts. "It's only just taking a bit of a breather," Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. "I suppose when you look at the away the US markets ended it was positive but being down this little is no ...

Hong Kong's millionaire factory

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
Hong Kong's rich list is set to explode after a Datamonitor study found the number of millionaires (those with more than $US1 million) is predicted to increase by 32,000 by 2011. The Wealth Management in Hong Kong 2007 report found the amount of assets ...

CARE and Vision break off merger talks

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
CARE Super and Vision Super have announced they will not be proceeding with a proposed merger. Michael O'Sullivan, chairman of CARE Super, and Michael Tilley, chairman of Vision Super, announced that the mutual decision not to merge had been arrived ...

Count to include equity release on approved list

... main reason for that is because of the Australian culture of investing a lot of their savings in property," said Michael Spurr, the group's acting chief operating officer. One way to access illiquid savings housed in property is through an equity release ...
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