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Coalition victory to boost business confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... Coalition victory in tomorrow's election will provide a welcome boost to business confidence but without a majority in both houses the lift may not be enough to plug the hold left by the end of the mining investment phase, according to UBS strategist ...

Fund managers mislead researchers on reasons for staff turnover

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Senior management teams at some investment managers are deliberately misleading research houses about reasons for staff turnover in a bid to preserve their ratings, according to ProCapital managing director Dr Jerome Lander. The manager selection expert ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... economy just as they did over the past 18 months - support "interest-sensitive spending and asset values" (mainly stocks and houses) and increase "demand for finance by households" (mainly for financing purchases of stocks and houses). The All Ords index ...

CIE expands its education program to the retail market

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013

Standard Life sales spike after global expansion

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... investment management company in 1998. With assets under management of AUS$296.2, it is one of Europe's major investment houses.

PM Capital boosted by beer and Las Vegas property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... Index. The firm's latest success story has been a direct play on the US housing recovery. On discovering three-bedroom houses for sale in a tree-lined suburb with direct freeway links to Las Vegas for US$110,000 Moore and Pittard set about finding the ...

FSC to support Indigenous financial literacy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... products are keys to managing a budget, planning a work career, running a business or building long term assets, such as a houses and superannuation." The FNF said it wanted to see an Australia in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people value ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... contribution rate be raised to 15%. Currently large lump sum payments are used to pay off mortgages and other debts, refurbish houses, buy camper vans, or go on holiday. Telling people they cannot do this anymore is not going to be popular. "I think ...

Standard Life Inv GARS manager in shock exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... specifically designed to protect investors from GFC style losses. Munro's exit may now prompt a review of the fund from research houses and pension investors. Current head of multi-asset management Guy Stern, who has for some time been in charge of the ...

Research houses flag 'rating shopping' to advisers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
Research houses Zenith, van Eyk and Morningstar will make it easier for advisers to see when a fund manager pulls out of the rating process following new regulatory guidelines aimed at preventing investment houses from shopping around for favourable ...