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Aus Ethical to give $12,500 for green film

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
Fund manager Australian Ethical Investments and the Documentary Australia Foundation are giving a $12,500 prize money to a film maker who can do an Al Gore - produce a film that can best illustrate the link between corporate actions and the environment. ...

AXA Asia Pacific taps SMSFs, restructures fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
AXA Asia Pacific makes a big push into the SMSFs sector, flags plans to remove all entry, exit and trail commission products from its APLs and unbundle advice fees from product fees on all of AXA's on-sale products. In an investor presentation today ...

Men behaving womanly

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
Men are living longer than they used to, thanks to women, and the narrowing of the mortality gap between both genders must be factored in any financial plan, said a demographics expert. Actuarial statistics on the mortality of the Australian population ...

Fidelity's Bolton back in the game

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Fidelity International's investment guru Anthony Bolton comes out of his self-imposed exile from managing money to run a China fund next year. Bolton will manage the yet to be named China fund, which is slated for release in the end of March 2010. He ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
Rogue hedge funds will lie, cheat and connive to get investor money, and while the regulators lack muscle to stop them, there are ways for pension funds to quickly spot the next Madoff. Professor Stephen Brown, a top academic who presented at a hearing ...

The downside of Ripoll

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
The challenge facing financial planners in complying with the Ripoll Report's recommendation of legislating fiduciary duty is how it can be codified, said a law expert. Michael Peters, business law lecturer from the University of New South Wales, said ...

J.P. Morgan buys $99bn ANZ custody services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
J.P. Morgan's Worldwide Securities Services division has bought ANZ's Custodian Services business - a move that raises the group's assets under custody by another 36 per cent to $370 billion and gives J.P. Morgan an entry into the local sub-custody ...

Perceived conflicts lethal to planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
Commission-based financial advice may not necessarily lead to real conflicts of interest but even 'perceived' conflicts threaten to undermine the industry's future, said Chris Bowen, the minister for financial services and superannuation. Addressing ...

Praemium tailors Wrap for fee-for-service

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Tech firm Praemium taps into the wave of planning groups adopting the fixed-fee service model by expanding the features of its V-Wrap service, including a billing system custom-made for fixed-fee advisers. It's taken Praemium 18 months of consultation ...

Giant leap for super advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Seven of the country's largest fund managers, including AMP, BT and CFS, have ratified a bold, new IFSA Superannuation Charter - heralding a new culture where consumers, not the planners, dictate the fees paid on superannuation advice. More than 135 ...