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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 ...

Lonsec shuts door on rating 'shopping' with new rankings

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) guidelines aimed at preventing conflicts of interest, require research houses to provide greater disclosure around adverse research. As result of a comprehensive review of its processes in light ...

Hunter Hall founder targets instos and SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... skill set to that provided by many smaller fund managers that are formed through break-away teams from large investment houses," managing director and chief investment officer Parker said. Altair has launched with two flagship products, Altair Advantage ...

ASX in $553m share issue

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... entitlement offer, it will have no external debt facilities and the total equity capital contributed by ASX to its clearing houses will reach $700 million. "ASX is committed to providing Australia's financial markets with a robust risk management infrastructure," ...