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MLC planning arms complete fee-for-service move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
After a four-year transition phase, three of MLC's financial planning businesses have moved to a fee-based model. The institution confirmed it had completed the process it started in 2006 to have MLC Financial Planning, Garvan Financial Planning and ...

452 Capital returns 32pc in Morgan's absence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
452 Capital's Australian share strategy posted more than 32 per cent in gross returns, just slightly above its benchmark, while co-founder Peter Morgan remains on extended leave for health reasons. Morgan, who also acts as an investment director, has ...

New benchmarks for better retirement: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The Westpac ASFA Retirement Standard, which gives Australians a good indication of how much they need to save for retirement, has been adjusted to factor in modern comforts that used to be nice-to-haves but are now must-haves. In the report, the new ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received flat to mixed leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while indices were down in Europe and Asia. Precious metals traded higher, as did oil and copper. At 0759 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The morning after. Either you're still reading the obituaries and the political assassination of Kevin Rudd or you have moved on to congratulate Australia's first femme PM - Julia Gillard. I won't bore you with the details. Pick up any local daily or ...

S&P retains Perpetual fund ratings

S&P RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
Standard & Poor's has kept its ratings on all Perpetual funds following the resignation of managing director, David Deverall. According to a statement, S&P is comfortable with the ratings because Deverall has no direct involvement in investment management ...

Perpetual MD Deverall resigns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
David Deverall, managing director at Perpetual, has resigned from the firm after seven years at the helm but will remain in his role until either a replacement is found or until March next year. "This has been a personal decision... I believe it is ...

Aussie quant funds stay ahead with proprietary data

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Australian equities quantitative fund managers may become far more secretive about their investment strategies as they strive to find different stock market signals to outperform their peers, according to one ratings firm. Justine Gorman, analyst at ...

DiNapoli slams raid rumours

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
New York's State Comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, has issued a statement condemning press reports that he will allow New York's $150 billion-plus pension fund to balance the state budget. "There have been a number of outrageous and unfounded rumors ...

Guardian launches wrap platform

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
Guardian Financial Planning has launched Vantage Portfolio Solutions, a platform that gives investors, who have reached their super contribution limit, an alternative channel for their savings. The wrap platform is a white label version of Colonial ...