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Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
While we continue to ride the resources boom, it seems that our cash starved infrastructure is beginning to hit the country's coffers where it hurts - in the mining sector. Hundreds of wagons once used to transport Queensland coal are lying idle throughout ...

More blue and orange in online banking

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
Not content to let ING have all the local online glory, Rabobank has entered Australia's retail banking market with a new comprehensive DIY banking service called RaboPlus. The product, which follows successful online product launches in Belgium, Ireland ...

New boutiques turning to better processes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Responding to consultant demands for more robust business models among boutique money managers, Indian Ocean Rim Asset Management (IOR) is harnessing technology and a globalised workforce to design investment processes normally associated with large ...

Super fees battle competition and returns

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released figures it says shows competition and increasing funds under management are driving down fees, however recent Rainmaker data paints a different picture. The IFSA figures to June 2006 ...

Private equity redefines mum-and-dad investing

The blow-out of leveraged buy-out activity (LBO) in Australia from an annual average of $1.5 billion to last year's record $27 billion is changing the investment landscape, but not in the way most people think. Andrew Goddard, director in alternative ...

Dutton allows warrants back on SMSF menu

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday reversed the federal government's hardline stance on instalment warrants, allowing self managed super funds to invest in warrants of "a limited recourse nature over any asset a fund would be permitted to invest ...

Aberdeen capitalises on expanded talent pool

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
Aberdeen will focus on new offshore talent and overseas credit products following the March acquisition of Deutsche Asset Management's (DeAM) Australian equities and fixed interest capabilities. Director of business development, Neil Hegarty, said Aberdeen ...

Praemium integrates market data streaming

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
Praemium has integrated live market trading data into its web-based V-wrap portfolio administration and separately managed account service to create a new desktop system that will be freely available to clients who want to white label the application ...

Stand by one manager: T Rowe Price

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
Generating alpha in the current global equities market meant employing only one manager per portfolio and conducting a lot of research into bottlenecks, according to visiting T Rowe Price vice president, Darrell Riley. Speaking at the Financial Standard ...

IUS partners with CUNA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
Group insurance specialist IUS is partnering with the US based CUNA Mutual Group to develop more innovative insurance products for the Australian market by harnessing IUS's reach into pension funds. Phil Collins, manager of group risk for IUS Life ...