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Instos face debate on EM strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... emerging market investment featuring equities, debt and currencies is the best option to meet the challenge. A multi-asset active management approach leads to opportunities for capitalisation on mispricings between debt and equity of a particular company ...

Advisers need to work on social media presence

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
Advisers should look closely at their objectives before determining which social media channels to use and how. This is the message from the most recent address by president of i-Impact Group and US social media expert, Claudio Pannunzio. "The core ...

Risk advisers optimistic about long-term

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... enthusiastic an motivated to keep providing quality advice and insurance protection to Australian families," Morgan said. Advisers active in the life risk market were slightly more optimistic than those who weren't, while South Australian and Victorian ...

Fiducian acquisition expands planning business

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
Fiducian Financial Services has bought the retail financial planning arm of Victorian state owned business State Trustees, as part of plans to expand its adviser presence in Australia. Owned by Fiducian Portfolio Services, which is listed on the Australian ...

Risk focus needed for sustainable investing: MLC

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... equity income strategies may be extremely useful in providing an additional source of relatively more stable returns and active risk control," said Karagianis.

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... - persists, the All Ords still has a fighting chance. Especially considering the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) pro-active stance towards monetary policy. The RBA has already cut interest rates by 50 basis points each in November and December last ...

Premium Wealth adds new practice to dealer network

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Premium Wealth Management has made another addition to its dealer group network with Pearman Financial Management joining its ranks and plans to continue to push for more firms to join its network. Pearman, a risk insurance-focused firm since 1999 ...

IOOF boosts active management, lowers fees

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
IOOF has announced plans to increase the exposure of its Multi Series Balanced Trust to active management while lowering its fees to 0.55% in a spate of upgrades for the trust. Part of the recently launched Pursuit Focus platform, the upgrades to the ...

RREEF Infrastructure acquires Aus gas interest

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
RREEF Infrastructure, the global infrastructure investment management business of Deutsche Bank has entered into an agreement to acquire a 40% interest in the Brisbane gas distribution business ALLGAS from APA Group. The acquisition was made on behalf ...

In superannuation, bigger can be better but not always

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
With Australia's biggest super fund, AustralianSuper, announcing yet another merger, this time with the public sector industry fund AGEST, the question is whether super funds are merging for the benefit of their members or to build financial empires. ...