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Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
A Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) case hearing concluded that just because a product is within a planning group's approved products list (APL) doesn't mean they have fulfilled their fiduciary duty - prompting top researchers to talk about the role ...

Peering into the future

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... Scully, finance author and long-time industry professional, outlined his views on the shape of the industry over the next decade, predicting bigger problems for platforms, some types of multi-manager strategies and some super funds. Scully, who now heads ...

AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Demand for more infrastructure investment creates huge investment opportunities for super funds, and AustralianSuper intends taking a leadership role. The fund has not only announced intentions to appoint four major investment team leaders, including ...

Funds eye Yuan bond market

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
China has long attracted interest from foreign equity managers but now fixed interest managers are keeping an eye on Yuan-denominated bond markets for fresh opportunities. For the plethora of global growth and Asian equity managers out there, exposure ...

ASFA calls on Cooper to aid SuperStream reforms

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... of proposals from the Cooper Review, called SuperStream, which could potentially save $20 billion in costs over the next decade by improving back-office operations and data quality. "The big thing for us in doing this is that the industry can move forward ...

China's $750bn pledge to clean tech aids sector

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
China's $750 billion investment toward clean technologies over the next decade will direct not just much-needed funding into the sector but make it more appealing to investors. Speaking at a one-day Deutsche Asset Management forum in Sydney this month ...

The man who broke the pound retires

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010

GFC not over, but opportunities abundant: TRG

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Treasury Group boutique fund managers were united in the view that the global financial crisis is not over just yet, but that selective opportunities exist for canny investors, at a briefing with journalists yesterday. "To me, it's just how it plays ...

Numero Dos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... strides over the past ten years. According to the Wall Street Journal, China was ranked seventh biggest a little over a decade ago. It surpassed Germany as numero tres only in 2007. And with Spot No. 2 goes all the extra trimmings. If you think the US ...

SuperStream to deliver $20bn in savings

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Super funds will be able to save up to $20 billion over the next decade with the implementation of SuperStream - but the Government and Opposition will have to work hand in hand to see the savings passed down to members, according to the FSC. The Financial ...