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Women on top of SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
SMSFs are meeting two of the Government's top goals in super - getting more members to take an active role in their retirement savings and getting more women involved, argue industry experts. Product providers new to the industry should understand the ...

Waked leaves BlackRock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Morry Waked, BlackRock's global chief investment officer of Scientific Active Equities and the head of the Australia SAE business, leaves the firm after more than 12 years for personal reasons. Waked has been with the firm since 1997 working in a number ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Financial planners are three times more likely to favour Platinum Asset Management over other international equities fund managers, new research found. An Investment Trends survey of 648 financial planners found 56 per cent of planners listed Platinum ...

Planners sidelined for self-investing strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... generation they belong, and that day traders are less inclined to ask "experts" for stock advice. According to a survey of 500 active Australian equity traders, CMC Markets found a growing number of investors who preferred to take their investments into ...

Investors gain sector-based ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... Metals and Mining. Jim Socratous, managing director at Aii, said the sector-based ETFs would allow investors to apply an active strategy to a passive investment. He said ETFs had become more popular in the past 12 months as financial advisers move to ...

Vanguard outlines responsible investment stance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Vanguard Investments Australia is keen to dispel speculation that an index manager cannot comply with any responsible investment principles despite not being a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). "It's is ...

More funds adopt intra-fund advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... to the fund's financial advice partner, Outlook Financial Solutions. But AvSuper is not the only superannuation provider active in the intra-fund advice arena. Plum Financial Services is currently working on a "graduated advice model" that incorporates ...

Sign Say on Pay: CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... fund with approximately more than $200 billion in assets. It administers retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million active and retired state, public school, and local public agency employees and their families.

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... skills and infrastructure base will lead to a lasting improvement in productivity." To pay for this the government will need active participation by the private sector, which is why IFSA this week released its latest report calling for an increase in ...

Norwegian pension excludes tobacco firms

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... American Inc are among those excluded from the fund's investment universe. Norway's Government Pension Fund Global is a very active responsible investor. Last year, the fund placed the European engineering conglomerate, Siemens AG, 'on observation' after ...