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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 ...

Portfolio manager movement accelerates

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... management. The most movement occurred in equities, the report found. The ratings firm found all departures were from mainstream managers, although only 27 per cent of those who left found a new place to work. On the contrary, boutique managers are doing ...

Intra-fund advice to affect 20 per cent of planning revenues

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
Advisers risk losing one in five of their clients if demand for intra-fund advice services become mainstream - but transactional advice could be the key to ensure advisers maintain an edge in the market. Cameron O'Sullivan, a financial adviser and director ...

Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... are far more effective if they are insourced as part of a super fund's core, not peripheral, activity." It is this mainstream approach of corporate governance, well ingrained in the culture of all super funds, that will do members more good, he said. ...

Russell ups alternatives exposure

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... believes the global listed infrastructure market is an exciting new investment opportunity and is likely to become more mainstream over the next 10 years. The Global Strategic Yield Fund - $A Hedged provides an active multi-manager vehicle for an opportunistic ...

Praemium tailors Wrap for fee-for-service

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... income-generating property, direct share trades and so on. "What excites us at Praemium about this is that it takes V-Wrap to mainstream financial planning where it's not just SMAs [the group's foundation service] but into a whole suite of things that ...