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The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... desciribing the current correction as "just noise." Dr Oliver said, "If you look at the last three weeks, investment accounts would be down, although they have rebounded somewhat already, but over a year they are still well up." He believes that recent ...

The miseducation on research

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... capacity, track record, governance and public documents such as product disclosure statements, trust deeds, financial accounts etc," said Cruickshank. Independent research reports should therefore be used in conjunction with advisers to provide investors ...

Fat Prophets enters SMA market

... have had in the past," he said. With a minimum investment of $25,000, SMA investors can withdraw from or add to their accounts at any time with lump sums or through a contribution plan. They can use the company's margin lending facility if they want ...

MAB in hiring spree

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
... key appointments to their team, including Roger Phipps as national distribution manager to drive relationships with key accounts and consultants in the retail and wholesale space. Phipps was formerly vice president business development at Legg Mason ...

Skandia upgrades client support

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... include account management, relationship management and centralising how they manage ongoing liaison between their key accounts and Skandia's senior management. Martin Morris, Skandia's head of retail distribution, said the new approach was aimed at ...

Sub-prime contamination causes market carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... was that the domestic market surrendered 203 points, or 3.3 per cent to close at 5941.2. Australian investors' trading accounts lost $48 billion in the biggest one-day fall since the September 11 terror attacks in 2001. High beta stocks were slaughtered ...

St.George and HESTA champion flexible workplace

... and the Large Business Award. Among the group's staff benefits include flexible parental leave, gifts of $200 in the accounts of new babies of staff, volunteer leave for teams to provide group support for the community, environment or favourite charity ...

Managed accounts move one step closer to benchmarking

... Managed Account Providers (iMAP) have formed a working group that will help develop the standards for benchmarking managed accounts (MAs), in a bid to help financial advisers compare MAs in a uniform format. Ratings agency Morningstar has expressed interest ...

Stable funds bad defaults: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... choose to offer a choice of three "default" options that include life cycle funds, balanced funds and individually managed accounts. But because only about 13 per cent of 401(k) assets are held in capital stable funds, which are predominantly offered ...

Co-contribs put extra $3bn into nation's super

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
Over $3 billion of co-contributions have flowed into superannuation accounts in the three years since the Federal Government began its co-contribution scheme, according to Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton. Dutton said a third ...