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The lure of the boutique

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... report, S&P fund services found that 94 per cent of departures of key investment professionals this year have been from mainstream investment managers. More than a quarter of those that jumped ship left a mainstream house to join a boutique, while 31 ...

New board at India Equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... under control, and see which assets can be used or rented out to improve the LIC's financial situation, according to mainstream news reports this morning. The news comes less than a week after boutique investment firm Bell IXL Investments made a takeover ...

Former planner pushes for cruelty free super

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... are among the very best performers," said Lee Coates, director of Cruelty Free Super. "They embarrass the majority of mainstream managers with no [cruelty-free] criteria by outperforming year after year, so you can wave a vegan fund and say 80 per cent ...

More workshops to prep for fee-for-service

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... of financial planning groups offering advice through fee-for-service five years ago, the advice model has now gone mainstream - and there are workshops a-plenty for those who are still mulling over their options. Seven years ago, a firm called Centrestone ...

ACCC chairman withdraws from merger talks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... no longer be involved with further commission deliberations on the merger, noted the press statement. According to mainstream press reports, NAB is one of the four lenders to Austexx, an investment vehicle that Samuel is invested in, and which is the ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... this month and product providers predict the launch of fixed income ETFs this year and next will drive the sector's mainstream appeal. At the end of July 2010, the global ETF industry had US$1.09 trillion in assets under management (AUM), an increase ...

Staff departures prompt rating changes

S&P REPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... 18 per cent of the ratings affected by departures. More than 80 per cent of significant staff departures occurred in mainstream fund managers. BlackRock was the most affected fund manager this calendar year with four departures while AMP, Amundi, Challenger ...

Challenger wins $200m from AustralianSuper

AUSTRALIANSUPER RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
... that they wouldn't get elsewhere." The news about Australian Super's investment in Challenger was first reported in mainstream press last week.

ETFs tough to white label

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... (SMSF) trustees and boutique financial advisers. "Boutique financial advisers are definitely using ETFs more than the mainstream dealer group market," he said. "That's because they have their own AFSL, a lot of them run their own business so they tend ...

Planners advising ETFs double

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... telling sign though is that ETFs have clearly made the jump in planners mind from an 'alternative investment' to a mainstream investment vehicle." While advisers are increasingly advising on ETFs, current investors are relatively unlikely to rely on ...