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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 ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Yes, we all live in a global community thanks to the web, but according to new research, where you live physically makes a big difference to your retirement savings. New research from consulting giant Towers Watson found that working in Paris, Tokyo ...

ASIC power boost could trigger witch-hunts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Some investment experts worry the government's plans to increase ASIC's investigative powers could spark industry witch-hunts. Indy Singh, managing director of Fiducian, said the government has to tread carefully when increasing ASIC's powers and assure ...

AMP won't rely on M&A: Dunn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Craig Dunn, chief executive at AMP, said at a recent conference that the wealth management giant is not pinning its long-term growth strategy purely on merger and acquisitions. Speaking at the AMP 2010 planner conference last week, Dunn said the firm's ...

Asia ushers 2010 with caution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
Investors will be wary of inflation and deflation risks, hedge funds will undergo closer scrutiny and ESG factors will take prominence - these are some of Mercer's investment trends predictions for Asia this year. Although the threat of sustained deflation ...

Standard Life fined $4m for bad marketing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
The UK financial services regulator has fined Standard Life Assurance more than $4 million for releasing misleading marketing information that resulted in approximately 98,000 people believing they were invested in pure cash assets. The Financial Services ...

ASIC bans planner pushing dodgy docos

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
A financial adviser who gave his clients false disclosure documents was slapped with a five-year ban from providing financial services. ASIC has banned Joshua David Fuoco of Prahran, Victoria from providing financial services after the regulator's investigation ...

Star ratings face predictability test

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Research group Morningstar has rebutted a US study that suggested its ratings system failed or virtually lost all of its predicted ability when measured over a full market cycle. In early December, Advisor Perspectives, a US-based investment trends ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... policy in 1937 in efforts to restore the federal budget back in balance. Just as now, improvements in economic indicators (mis)led it to believe that happy days are here again. Wrong! The US economy doubled back. Unemployment increased from 14.3 per ...

SMAs to turbocharge SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
The Cooper Review highlights separately managed accounts (SMAs) as an appealing platform for SMSFs, and has challenged the industry to come up with fresh answers on how SMAs can be adopted widely. The issues paper released yesterday highlighted the ...