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Big things come in Smallco packages

Little known fund Smallco Investment is celebrating its fifth year in business on a high note reporting a strong 19 per cent return since inception and a ratings upgrade from Zenith. The fund's investment manager Rob Hopkins says the fund has performed ...

Returns after-tax are the maingame: Vanguard

Vanguard Investments Australia's head of retail, Robin Bowerman, has warned financial planners and investors to demand after-tax reporting or risk being shortchanged. "There is an increasing focus on fees - which is good - but investors should also ...

Index for the smart, hedge for the stupid

LA-based investment theory and practice guru Rex Sinquefield entertained, enlightened and provoked the audience at the FPA conference last week when he questioned returns made by hedge funds and called those who invest in them "stupid". "Many people ...

Returns after-tax are the maingame: Vanguard

Vanguard Investments Australia's head of retail, Robin Bowerman, has warned financial planners and investors to demand after-tax reporting or risk being shortchanged. "There is an increasing focus on fees - which is good - but investors should also ...

QIC turns absolute for global fixed interest

QIC has launched a global fixed interest (GFI) product with an absolute flavour that aims to focus on active alpha rather than benchmark returns. The GFI fund claims to offer clients exposure to fixed interest active returns without the market exposure ...

Bellwether returns for new boutique

New boutique fund manager Bellwether Partners (Bellwether) has posted strong first year performances with its Australian Share Fund outperforming the S&P/ASX 300 benchmark by 15.5 per cent. Bellwether's Australian share fund produced a 46.88 per cent ...

Mishandled mandate transitions can cost 3 per cent: State Street

The surge in multi-manager portfolios and strategic rebalancing means managing mandate transitions efficiently is more important than ever. Nick Bonn, executive vice president and head of securities trading for State Street's Global Markets group in ...

SMS technology paving the way

Technology is continuing its push into how we handle transactions and its only a matter of time before wealth management service providers follow suit. Though yet to revolutionise how investors or super fund members are kept informed of transaction ...

ASIC comes down on financial services fraud

A former director of Sydney financial services business, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has been sentenced to eight years jail after being found guilty of fraud worth $2.2 million to fund a personal gambling habit. Craig John McKim pleaded guilty ...

Share traders switch to derivatives

A new derivative called Contracts for Difference (CFD) has drawn share traders in a big way according to a recent industry report. Based on a survey by research firm Investment Trends, the number of CFD traders in Australia jumped by 62 percent over ...